Town

1. Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
2. Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
3. Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
4. The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
5. A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
6. The court end of London; -- commonly with the.
7. The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
8. A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
Town clerk ,
an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See Clerk.
Town cress (Bot.),
the garden cress, or peppergrass.
Town house
1. A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country.
2. See Townhouse.
Town meeting ,
a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness.
Town talk ,
the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation.