- A country or region, more or less remote from the city of
Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond
the limits of Italy. - A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a
portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital. - A region of country; a tract; a district. - A region under the supervision or direction of any
special person; the district or division of a country, especially an
ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the
province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury
exercises ecclesiastical authority. - The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or
body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere. - Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of
Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in
the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the
Dominion of Canada.
- An upright architectural member right-angled in plan,
constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally
corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree
with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the
projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.
- Battling (with) - Competing - Contending - Contending (with) - Contesting, ... for - of Vie - a. & n. from Vie.
W () the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a
consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of
certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its
name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the
Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related
to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England,
especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the
other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for
wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 266-268.