Posted by H. Carla Greene on Monday, March 7, 2011
Today's find is:
CANTON as a noun, has two meanings.
1) a small subdivision of a country that is set aside for political or administrative purposes. This can be stated as "Washington D.C. is a canton of the United States."
2) a square charge depicting a symbolic icon smaller than a quarter and positioned in the upper right corner (from the point of view of the person looking at it) of a coat of arms.