n. 州, 行政区

vt. 驻扎, 划成行政区

Canton \Can"ton\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cantoned}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Cantoning}.] [Cf. F.cantonner.]
1. 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.

2. (Mil.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different
parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.


Canton \Can"ton\, n.
A song or canto [Obs.]

Write loyal cantons of contemned love. --Shak.


Canton \Can"ton\, n. [F. canton, augm. of OF. cant edge, corner.
See 1st {Cant}.]
1. 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.

2. A small community or clan.

3. 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}.

4. (Her.) 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.