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. [Eng.] --Johnson.
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.
God made the country, and man made the town.
--Cowper.
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. [U. S.]
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.
Always hankering after the diversions of the town.
--Addison.
Stunned with his giddy larum half the town. --Pope.
Note: The same form of expressions is used in regard to other
populous towns.
8. A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. [Prov.
Eng. & Scot.]
Note: Town is often used adjectively or in combination with
other words; as, town clerk, or town-clerk; town-crier,
or town crier; townhall, town-hall, or town hall;
townhouse, town house, or town-house.
Syn: Village; hamlet. See {Village}.
{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. --Dr.
Prior.
{Town house}.
(a) A house in town, in distinction from a house in the
country.
(b) See {Townhouse}.
{Town meeting}, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town
entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness.
[U. S.]
{Town talk}, the common talk of a place; the subject or topic
of common conversation.