Expugn: alternatives and connections

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36 1/2, at Ha…

A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician o…

A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives o…

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.

An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital ci…

To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.

Containing, or covered with, cities.

One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.

To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to…

The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some…

A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, e…

To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.

To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesit…