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CANTON, n.

1. A small portion of land, or division of territory; originally, a portion of territory on a border; also, the inhabitants of a canton.

2. A small portion or district of territory, constituting a distinct state or government; as in Switzerland.

3. In heraldry, a corner of the shield.

4. A distinct part, or division; as the cantons of a painting or other representation.
1913 Definition
Canton (canton)
n.(?)
Can"ton
  1. A song or canto
    [Obs.]

    Write loyal cantons of contemned love.
    Shak.

  2. A small portion; a division; a compartment.

    That little canton of land called the "English pale"
    Davies.

    There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented.
    Bp. Burnet.

  3. A small community or clan.
  4. A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
  5. A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.

    The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.
    Evelyn.

  6. To divide into small parts or districts] to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.

    They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world.
    Locke.

  7. To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

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