n. [ F. ] (Hydraulic Eagin.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. villaticus belonging to a country house or villa. See Villa, and cf. Villatic. ] A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. [ 1913 Webster ]

Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Village, Hamlet, Town, City. In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inhabitant of a village. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard condition. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Villages; a district of villages. [ Obs. ] “The maidens of the villagery.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]