Noun
a small administrative division of a country

Noun
a city on the Zhu Jiangi delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port

Verb
divide into cantons, of a country

Verb
provide housing for (military personnel)

n.
A song or canto

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

n.
A small community or clan.

n.
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.

n.
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.

v. i.
To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.

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

Canton

Write loyal cantons of contemned love.

Canton

That little canton of land called the "English pale"

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

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

Canton

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

A song or canto

A small portion; a division; a compartment.

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