Word Meanings - CANTONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To divide into cantons or small districts.
Related words: (words related to CANTONIZE)
- DIVIDER
An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters. - DIVIDEND
A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - DIVIDEDLY
Separately; in a divided manner. - DIVIDED
Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed. - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - DIVIDE
To subject to arithmetical division. (more info) cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. 1. To part asunder ; to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. Divide the living child in - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - SMALLS
See 3 - SMALLSWORD
A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. - DIVIDENT
Dividend; share. Foxe. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - SUBDIVIDE
To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden. - REDIVIDE
To divide anew. - MISDIVIDE
To divide wrongly. - ABYSMALLY
To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot. - UNDIVIDED
Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire. (more info) 1. Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains. 2. Not set off, as a share in a firm; not made actually separate by division;