Crossword clues for counties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
County \Coun"ty\ (koun"t[y^]), n.; pl. Counties (-t[i^]z). [F. comt['e], fr. LL. comitatus. See Count.]
An earldom; the domain of a count or earl. [Obs.]
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A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire.
Every county, every town, every family, was in agitation.
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A count; an earl or lord. [Obs.]
--Shak.County commissioners. See Commissioner.
County corporate, a city or town having the privilege to be a county by itself, and to be governed by its own sheriffs and other magistrates, irrespective of the officers of the county in which it is situated; as London, York, Bristol, etc. [Eng.]
--Mozley & W.County court, a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county.
County palatine, a county distinguished by particular privileges; -- so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but these powers are now abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham.
County rates, rates levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.]
County seat, a county town. [U.S.]
County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. [Eng.]
County town, the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of county English)
Usage examples of "counties".
The true elbow-to-elbow density of both counties is actually higher, when you eliminate their vast, unpopulated Everglades acreage.
In the civil war Buckinghamshire was one of the first counties to join in an association for mutual defence on the side of the parliament, which had important garrisons at Aylesbury, Brill and elsewhere.
Today 4 million people in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties rely on the Everglades system for their drinking water.
And somebody also understood that Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties would inevitably grow westward as haphazardly as fungus, and with even less regard for their mother host.
Several counties have launched their own acquisition programs with bond issues approved by the public.
The Great Western railway, striking into the Avon valley near Bath, serves Bristol from London, connects it with South Wales by the Severn tunnel, and with the southern and south-western counties of England.
At the dissolution of the monasteries the diocese of Bristol was founded, which included the counties of Bristol and Dorset.
He was soon given a command in the midland counties, and having seized Lichfield he was killed there on the 2nd of March 1643.
Otto added several counties and the town of Hanover to his possessions, and when he died in 1252 was succeeded by his sons Albert and John.
Many counties were added to its area, but it was weakened by constant divisions of territory, and during the period of the Reformation some of the princes took one side and some the other.
Office was mandated by a new law in 1981 to conduct independent inquiries into criminal cases around the state, to offer assistance to counties, and indeed to prosecute in some instances.
Small counties often had complicated cases that required more manpower than they had on staff.
He had resigned his judgeship in order to spend the autumn months campaigning for the office among his influential friends in Raleigh, while his duties to justice in the mountain counties lay forgotten, overshadowed by his ambition.
The State of Franklin was formed from the eastern counties of what is now Tennessee, and Sevier became its governor.
Colonel Newland said that even the Raleigh newspaper carried an article about the missing prisoner, and we knew that other lawmen from the neighboring counties had joined in the search.