an arrondissement of the department of the Meurthe, in France, extending over 463 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into 119 communes; and in 1836 it contained 64,041 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, stands on a plain at the foot of hills covered with vines, and watered by the river Moselle. It is the seat of a bishop, has a fine Gothic cathedral and other three churches, a hospital, an arsenal, and some well-built barracks. It contained in the same year 7833 inhabitants, whose chief trade is in wine and brandy. Long. 5. 48. 13. E. Lat. 48. 40. 32. N.