CA-CHEX/Y, n. [Gr. καχεξια.] A vicious state of the powers of the body; a deranged state of the constitution, without fever or nervous disease. CACH-IN-NATION, n. [L. cachinnatio.] Loud laughter. [Little used.] CACHO-LONG, n A variety of chalcedony. CACKLE, v. i. [D. kaakelen.] 1. To make a particular noise, as a hen. 2 To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a goose; to giggle. 3. To prate; to prattle; to tattle; to talk in a silly manner. CACKLE, n. 1. The broken noise of a goose or hen. 2. Idle talk; silly prattle. CACKLER, n. 1. A few. that cackles. 2. A telltale; a tattler. CACIKLING, ppr Making the noise of a goose or hen. CACKLING, n. The broken noise of a goose or hen. CAC-O-CHYМІЄ, 4. Having the fluids of the body CAC-O-CHYMI-CAL, vitiated, especially the blood. CACO-CHYM-Y, n. [Gr. κακοχυμια.] A vicious state of the vital humors, especially of the blood. CAC-O-DE'MOΝ, π. [Gr. κακος and δαιμων.] An evil spirit. CAC-O-ETHES, n. [Gr. κακοηθεια.] 1. A bad custom or habit; a bad disposition.-2. In medicine, an incurable ulcer. CA-COG/RA-PHY, n. Bad spelling. ΕΛ-ΕΟΡΗΟ-ΝΥ, η. [Gr. κακος and φωνη.] 1. In rhetoric, an uncouth or disagreeable sound of words, proceeding from the meeting of harsh letters or syllables.-2. In medicine, a depraved voice; an altered state of the voice.-3. In music, a combination of discordant sounds. CA-DA'VER, n. [L.] A corpse. CA-DAVIER-OUS, a. [L. cadaver.] 1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; wan; ghastly. 2. Having the qualities of a dead body. CAD'DIS, A. A kind of tape or riband; a kind of worm. 2. A kind of worm or grub found in a case of straw. CAD DOW, n. A chough; a jackdaw. EADDY, n. A small box for keeping tea. EADE, a. Tame; bred by hand; domesticated; as, a cade lamb. CADE, v. t. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to tame. CADE, n. [L. cadus.] A barrel or cask. EADE-OIL, n. In the materia medica, an oil made of the fruit of the oxycedrus. PADE-WORM, n. The same as caddis. CADENCE, or CADEN-CY, n. [Fr. cadence: Sp., Port. cadencia.] 1. A fall; a decline; a state of sinking. 2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking. 3. The general tone of reading verse. 4. Tone; sound. 5. In music, repose; the termination of a harmonical phrase on a repose, or on a perfect chord.-6. In horsemanship, an equal measure or proportion observed by a horse in all his motions.-7. In heraldry, the distinction of families. A'DENCE, v. t. To regulate by musical measure. CADENCED, pp. or a. Having a particular cadence. CA-DENE, n. A species of inferior carpet. CA DENT, a. [L. cadens.] Falling down; sinking. CA-DENZA, n. [It.] The fall or modulation of the voice in singing. CA-DET, n. [Fr. cadet, It. cadetto.] 1. The younger or youngest son. Brown. 2. A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a private man, with a view to acquire military skill, and obtain a commission. 3. A young man, in a military school. CA-DEW', n. A straw-worm. See CADDIS CADGER. See CODGER. CAD GY, a. Cheerful; merry after good eating and drinking. Brockett, North of Eng. CA'DI, n. In the Turkish dominions, a judge in civil affairs. CA-DILLAC, n. A sort of pear. Johnson. CAD-ME'AN, or CAD MI-AN, a. Relating to Cadmus, a reputed prince of Thebes, who introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet α, β, γ, δ, ε, ι, κ, λ, μ, ν, ο, π, ρ, σ, τ, υ. These are called Cadmean let ters. EAD MI-A, n. An oxyd of zink which collects on the sides of furnaces where zink is sublimed. CAD MI-UM, n. A metal discovered in 1817. CA-DU CEUS, n. [L.] In ancient mythology, Mercury's rod, a wand entwisted by two serpents. CA-DOCI-TY, n. [L. caducus.] Tendency to fall. Chesterfield. [Little used.] CA-DU COUS, a. In botany, falling early. CAFTAN, n. [Persic.) A Persian or Turkish vest or gar ment. CAG, n. [Fr. caque; Dan. kag.) A small cask, or barrel. It is generally written keg. CAGE, n. [Fr. cage.] 1. A box or inclosure, for confining birds or beasts. 2. An inclosure made with palisades for confining wild beasts. 3. A prison for petty criminals.4. In carpentry, an outer work of timber, inclosing another within it. CAGE, v. t. To confine in a cage; to shut up, or confine CAGIT, n. A beautiful green parrot of the Philippine isles. CAIMAN. See CAYΜΑΝ. CAIRN, n. [Welsh, carn] A heap of stones. *CAIS-SON, or CAIS-SOON', n. [Fr.] 1. A wooden chest into which several bombs are put, and sometimes gunpowder. 2. A wooden frame or chest used in laying the foundation of the pier of a bridge. 3. An ammunition chest, or wagon. CAITIFF, or CAUTIF, n. [It. cattivo.] A mean villain; a despicable knave. CAPITIFF, CAITIF, or CAITIVE, a. Base; servile Spenser. CAJE-PUT, n. An oil from the East Indies. CA-JOLE, v. t. [Fr. cajoler.] To flatter; to soothe ; ما coax; to deceive or delude by flattery. CA-JOLER, n. A flatterer; a wheedler. CA-JOL/ER-Y, n. Flattery; a wheedling to delude. CA-JOLING, ppr. Flattering; wheedling; deceiving. CA-JOTA, n. A Mexican animal resembling a wolf and a dog. CAKE, n. [D. kock.] 1. A small mass of dough baked; or a composition of flour, butter, sugar, or other ingredients, baked in a small mass. 2. Something in the form of a cake, rather flat than high, but roundish. 3. A mass of matter concreted; as, a cake of ice. 4. A hard swelling on the flesh, or a concretion. ΕΛΚΕ, τ. τ. To form into a cake or mass. ΘΑΚΕ, v. i. To concrete, or form into a hard mass. † CAKE, v. i. To cackle. Ray. CAL/A-BASH, n. [Sp. calabaza.] 1. A vessel made of a dried gourd-shell, or of the shell of a calabash-tree. 2. A popular name of the gourd-plant, or cucurbita. CALIA-BASH-TREE, n. A tree of two species, known, in botany, by the generic name crescentia. CA-LADE', n. The slope or declivity of a rising manegeground. CA-LAITE, ». A name given to the turquois; which see and ten legs. CAL/AM-BAC, n. [Sp. calambuco.] Aloes-wood, xyloo aloes, a drug. CAL/AM-BOUR, n. A species of the aloes-wood. CAL-A-MIFER-OUS, a. Producing plants having a long, hollow, knotted stem. CAL/A-MINE, or CAL/A-MIN, n. Lapis calaminaris, or cadmia fossilis; an ore of zink. CAL/A-MINT, n. [L. calamintha.] An aromatic plant, a species of melissa, or baum. †CAL/A-MIS-TRATE, v. t. To curl or frizzle the hair. CAL-A-MIS-TRA TIÓN, n. The act of curling the hair. CAL A-MIT, n. [L. calamus.] A mineral. CA-LAMI-TOUS, a. [Fr. calamiteuz.] 1. Very miserable; involved in deep distress; oppressed with infelicity; wretched from misfortune. 2. Producing distress and mis ery; making wretched. 3. Full of misery; distressful wretched. CA-LAMI-TOUS-LY, adv. In a manner to bring great dis tress. CA-LAMI-TOUS-NESS, n. Deep distress; wretchedness; misery; the quality of producing misery. CA-LAMI-TY, n. [L. calamitas.) Any great misfortune. or cause of misery. CAL/A-MUS, n. [L.] 1. The generic name of the Indian cane, called also rotang.-2. In antiquity, a pipe or fistula, a wind instrument, made of a reed or oaten stalk. 3. A rush or reed used anciently as a pen to write on parch ment or papyrus. 4. A sort of reed, or sweet-scented cane, used by the Jews as a perfume. 5. The sweet ilag. CA-LANDRA, n. A species of lark. CA-LAN'DRE, or CAL/AN-DER, n The French name of a species of insect of the beetle kind. CA-LAN'GAY, n. A species of white parrot. Ash. CA-DOKE, a. [Old Fr. cuduc.] Fleeting, or frail. Hickes. CA-LASH', n. [Fr. caleche.] 1. A light chariot or carriage CÆCIAS, n. [L.] A wind from the north-east. CÆ RULE. See CERULE and CERULEAN. CESARI-AN. SEC CESARIAN. with very low wheels. 2. A cover for the head, used by ladies. CALEAR, n. In glass-works, a kind of oven. CALCA RI-OUS, a. [L. calcarius.) Partaking of the nature of lime; having the qualities of lime. CAL CA-VALLA, n. A kind of sweet wine from Portugal. CALCE-A-TED, a. [L. calceatus.] Shod; fitted with or wearing shoes. CALACE-DON, n. With jewelers, a foul vein, like chalcedony. See CHALCEDONY. Ash. CALCE DONIC, or CAL-CE-DONI-AN, a. Pertaining to or resembling chalcedony. CALACE-DO-NY. Sec CHALCEDONY, the more correct orthography. CALCIPER-OUS, a. Producing calx or lime. CALCIN A BLE, e. That may be calcined; capable of being reduced to a friable state by the action of fire. CALCI-NATE, .t. To calcine. CALCINATION, n. 1. The operation of expelling from a substance, by heat, some volatile matter with which it is combined, and thus reducing it to a friable state. 2. The operation of reducing a metal to an oxyd, or metallic calx. ALL NA-TORY, R. A vessel used in calcination. CALCINE, or CAL-CINE, v. t. [Fr. calciner.] 1. To roduce a substance to a powder, or to a friable state. 2. To sydize, as a metal; to reduce to a metallic calx. 3. Tod dve, C CALCINE, r. i. To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. ALCI TRATE, P.1 (Fr. calcitrer.] To kick; to spurn. CALO SIN TER, A. Stalactitic carbonate of lime. CAL/CC-LA-RY, n. [L. calculus.) A congeries of little stony knota dispersed through the parenchyma of the pear and other fruits, formed by concretions of the sap. CAL/CU-LA-KY, 4. Relating to the disease called the CAL CU LATE, v. t. [Fr. calculer.] 1. To compute; to mckon. 2. To ascertain by the use of tables or numbers. 3. To form tables upon mathematical principles, as logaruams. 4. To compute the situation of the planets at a certain time, for astrological purposes. 5. To adjust by computation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of the means to the end. Tillotson. CALCULATE, . i. To make a computation. In popular wer, this word is often equivalent to intend or purpose, that is, to make arrangements, and form a plan; as, a man eiculates to go a journey. CALCO LA TED, pp. Computed; reckoned; suited; alapted by design. CALCU-LÀ TING, ppr. Computing; reckoning; adapting by design; adjusting. CAL-CU-LA TION, n. 1. The art, practice or manner of evenpating by numbers. 2. The result of an arithmetical eperation; computation; reckoning. 3. Estimate formed In the mind by comparing the various circumstances and futs which influence its determination. CALCU LA-TIVE, 4. Pertaining to calculation; tending to calculate. CALICUE. Bee CALASH. year, in which the months, weeks and days are set down in order, with the feasts observed by the church, &c.; an almanac. 2. A list of prisoners in the custody of the sheriff. 3. An orderly table or enumeration of persons or things. Calendar-month, a solar month-as it stands in al manacs. CALJEN-DAR, v. &. To enter or write in a calendar. CAL/EN-DER, v. t. [Fr. calendrer.] To press between rollers, for the purpose of making smooth, glossy and wavy. CALEN-DER, 2. A machine, or hot press, used in manufactories to press cloths, CAL/EN-DER, or KAL/EN-DER, 2. The name of a sort of dervises in Turkey and Persia. CAL/EN-DRER, R. The person who calenders cloth. CAL/ENDS, n. plu. [L. calenda.] Among the Romans, the first day of each month. CALEN-TURE, n. [Sp. calentura.] A violent, ardent fever, incident to persons in hot climates, especially nativen of cooler climates. CALF, (cat) n.; plu. CALVES, (CAVZ) [Sax. cealf; Sw kalf; Dan. kalo; D. kalf.] 1. The young of the cow.2. In contempt, a dolt; an ignorant, stupid person; a weak or cowardly man. 3. The thick, fleshy part of the leg behind.-1. The calves of the lips, in Hosca, signify the pure offerings of prayer, praise and thanksgiving. Brown. CALF-LIKE, a. Resembling a calf. Shak. CXLF-SKIN, n. The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin. CALI-BER, n. [Fr.] 1. The diameter of a body. 2. The bore of a gun, or the extent of its bore. -Caliber-compasses, calibers, or callipers, a sort of compasses made with arched legs, to take the diameter of round bodies, as masts, shot, &c. CALI-BRE, n. A sort or kind; a figurative meaning of the preceding word. Burke. CALICE, n. [L.caliz; Fr.calice.) Usually written chalice. CALI-CO-PRINTER, n. One whose occupation is to print calicoes. CALAD, a. [L. calidus.] Hot; burning; ardent. CALI-DUCT, n. Among the ancients, a pipe or canal used to convey heat froin a furnace to the apartments of a house. CALIF, n. written also CALIPH and KALIF. [from Ar. calafa, to succeed. Hence a calif is a successor, a title given to the successors of Mohammed.] A successor or vicar; a representative of Mohammed, bearing the same relation to him as the pope pretends to bear to St. Peter. CALIF-ATE, CALIPHATE, CALIPH SHIP, or KALIF ATE, n. The office or dignity of a calif; or the govern ment of a calif. Harris. CAL-I-GATION, n. [L. caligatio.] Darkness; dimness; cloudiness. CA-LIGIN-OUS, a. Dim; obscure; dark. CAL-I-GRAPHIC, a. Pertaining to elegant penmanship Warton. Shak. CALIX, n. [L. caliz.] 1. A cup. 2. The membrane which covers the papille in the pelvis. CALK, (cawk) w. t. 1. To drive oakum, or old ropes untwisted, into the seams of a ship or other vessel, to prevent their leaking, or admitting water.-2. In some parts of America, to set upon a horse or ox shoes armed with sharp points of iron, to prevent their slipping on ice. OALK, (cawk) n. In New England, a sharp pointed piece of iron on a shoe for a horse or an ox, called, in Great Britain, calkin; used to prevent the animal from slipping. CALKER, (cawk'er) n. A man who calks. CALE DONI-AN, a. Pertaining to Caledonia. ed with shoes with iron points. CALKIN, (cawk in) a. A calk. CALK ING, (cawking) ppr. Stopping the seams of a ship; putting on shoes with iron points. CALKING, (cawking) n. In painting, the covering of the back side of a design with black lead, or red chalk, and tracing lines through on a waxed plate, which leaves an Impression of the color on the plate or wall. CALKING-I-RON, (cawking-I-urn) n. An instrument like a chisel, used in calking ships. CALL, D.L. [L. calo.] 1. To name; to denominate, or give a name. 2. To convoke; to simmon; to direct or 118 order to meet; to assemble by order or public notice. 3. To call down, to invite, or to bring down. To call back, to CALL. v. i. 1. To utter a loud sound, or to address by CALL, n. 1. A vocal address, of summons or invitation. 2. Demand; requisition; public claim. 3. Divine vocation, or summons. 4. Invitation; request of a public body or society. 5. A summons from heaven; impulse. 6. Authority; command. 7. A short visit; as, to make a call. 8. Vocation; employment. 9. A naming; a nomination. 10. Among hunters, a lesson, blown on the horn, to comfort the hounds.-11. Among seamen, a whistle or pipe. 12. The English name of the mineral called by the Germans tungsten or wolfram.-13. Among fowlers, the noise or cry of a fowl, or a pipe to call birds, by imitating their voice.14. In legislative bodies, the call of the house, is a calling over the names of the members, to discover who is absent, or for other purpose. CALLED, pp. Invited; summoned; addressed; named ; appointed; invoked; assembled by order; recited. CALLER, n. One who calls. te CAL/LET, or † CAL/LAT, n. A trull, or a scold. Shak. CAL/LI-CO. See CALICO. CAL-LIDI-TY, n. [L. calliditas.] Craftiness. Cockeram. CALLING, n. 1. A naming, or inviting; a reading over CAL/LI-O-PE, n. In pagan mythology, the muse that pre- CAL/LI-PERS. See CALIBER. CAL-LOSI-TY, n. [Fr. callosité.] Hardness, or bony hardness; the hardness of the cicatrix of ulcers. CAL/LOT. See CALOTTE. CALLOUS, a. [L. callus.) 1. Hard; hardened; indurated. 2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling. CAL/LOUS-LY, adv, In a hardened or unfeeling manner. CAL/LOUS-NESS, n. Hardness, induration, applied to the body; insensibility, applied to the mind or heart. CAL/LOW, a. [Ir. calbh; L. calvus.] Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged; as a young bird. CAL/LUS, n. [L.] Any cutaneous, corneous or bony hardness, but generally the new growth of osseous matter, botween the extremities of fractured bones, serving to unite them; also, a hardness in the skin. CALM, (cam) a. [Fr. calme.] 1. Still; quiet; being at rest, as the air; not stormy or tempestuous. 2. Undisturbed; not agitated. 3. Undisturbed by passion; not agitated or excited; quiet; tranquil; as the mind, temper, or attention. CALM, (cam) 2. Stillness; tranquillity; quiet; freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance. CALM, (cam) v. t. To still; to quiet; as the wind, or elements; to still, appease, allay or pacify, as the mind, or passions. CALMER, (cam'er) n. The person or thing that calms, or CALMING, (cam'ing) ppr. Stilling; appeasing. CAM CXLM/NESS, (cam'nes) n. 1. Quietness; stillness; tran- medicine. CA-LORIE, n. [L. calor, heat.) The principle or matter CAL-O-RIME-TER, n. [L. calor, and Gr. μετρον.] Αnap- CAL/O-RI-MO-TOR, n. [caloric, and I. motor.] A galvanic instrument, in which the calorific influence or effects are attended by scarcely any electrical power. CA-LOTTE', or of hair, satin or other stuff. CA-LOYERS, or CALOGERI, n. Monks of the Greek church, of three orders. CA-LOTE, n. [Fr. calotte.] A cap or coif CALP, n. A subspecies of carbonate of lime. CAL/U-MET, n. Among the aboriginals of America, a pipe CA-LUMINI-ATE, v. i. To charge falsely and knowingly CA-LUMINI-A-TED, pp. Slandered; falsely and maliciously accused of what is criminal, immoral or disgraceful. CA-LUM NI-A-TING, ppr. Slandering. CA-LUM-NI-A'TION, n. False accusation of a crime or ofCA-LUMINI-A-TOR, n. One who slanders; one who mafense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. liciously propagates false accusations or reports. CA-LUMINI-A-TO-RY, a. Slanderous. CA-LUMINI-OUS, a. Slanderous; bearing or implying calumny; injurious to reputation. CA-LUM NI-OUS-LY, adv. Slanderously. CA-LUMINI-OUS-NESS, n. Slanderousness. CAL/UM-NY, n. [L. calumnia.] Slander; false accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported. CALVA-RY, n. [L. calvaria.] 1. A place of skulls; particularly, the place where Christ was crucified.-2. In heraldry, a cross so called, set upon steps. CALVE, (cav) v. i. [Sax. calfian.] 1. To bring forth young, as a cow.-2. In a metaphorical sense, to bring forth; to produce. CALVER, τ. ί. Τo shrink by cutting, and not fall to CALVES-SNOUT, n. A plant, snap-dragon, antirrhinum CAL/VILLE, n. [Fr.] A sort of apple. CAL/VIN-IST, n. A follower of Calvin; one who em- CAL-VIN-ISTIC, CAL-VIN-ISTI-CAL, opinions in theology. CALX, n.; plu. CALXES, OF CALCES. [L.] Properly, lime CA-LYCI-NAL,) a. Pertaining to a calyx; situated on a CAL/Y-CLE, n. [L. calyculus.] In botany, a row of sinall CA-LYCU-LATE, or CAL/Y-CLED, a. Having a calycie at the base on the outside. CA-LYP/TER, n. [Gr. καλυπτηρ.] The calyx of mosses, according to Linne CA'LYX, n.; plu. CALYXES. [L. calyz.] The outer covering of a flower. CAL-ZOONS!, n. [Sp. calzones.] Drawers. [Not English. Herbert. CA-MAIEU. See CAMEO. CAMBER, n. [Fr. cambrer.] Among builders, camber or CAMBER-ING, ppr. or a. Bending; arched. CAMB'LET. See CAMLET. ;-PREY ;-PIN, MARINE, BIRD;- , n. A species of fine white linen, made wald to be named from Cambray, in Flanders, where it was first manufactured. CAME, pret. of come, which see. CAME, n. A slender rod of cast lead, of which glaziers make their turned lead. CAM EL, n. [L. camelus.] 1. A large quadruped used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens, and for riders. 2. In Holland, camel, (or kamcel, as Coze writes it,] is a machine for lifting ships. CAM EL-BACKED, 4. Having a back like a camel. CA-ME/LE-ON MINE-RAL See CHAMELEON.] A compound of pure potash and black oxyd of manganese. CAMELO-PARD, n. [L. camelus and pardalis.) The giraff, a species constituting the genus camelopardalis. CAMELOT. See CAMLET. CAME-O, CA-MATEU, or CA-MAYEU, n. [It. cammco Fr. camaycu. A peculiar sort of onyx. CAMERA OB SCORA, or dark chamber, in optics, an apparatus representing an artificial eye, in which the Images of external objects, received through a double convex glass, are exhibited distinctly, and in their native colors, on a white matter, placed within the machine, in the focus of the glass. CAM E-RADE, n. [L. camera.] One who lodges or resides in the same apartment; now comrade. CAM-ER-A-LISTIC, a. Pertaining to finance and public CAM-ER-A-LISTICS, n. [G. cameralist.] The science of finance, or public revenue. CAMER-ATE, v. t. (L.camero.] To vault; to ceil. [L.u.] CAMER-A-TED, a. [L. camcratus.] Arched; vaulted. CAM-ER-ATION, . An arching or vaulting. CAMTS, n. [It. camice.) A thin dress. [Not English.] CAM-IS-ADE, n. [Fr.) An attack by surprise, at night or at break of day, when the enemy is supposed to be in bed. CAMIS-A-TED, 4. Dressed with a shirt outwards. Johnson. CAM LET, n. from camel; sometimes written camelot and camblet.] A stuff originally made of camel's hair. it is now made sometimes of wool, sometimes of silk, Bothetimes of hair, especially that of goats, with wool or .Κ. CAM LET-ED, 4. Colored or veined. Herbert. САМ МОС, п. [Sax.cummoc, or cammec.] A plant, petty win or rest-harrow, ononis. CAMOMILE, n. [Fr. camomille.] A genus of plants, anfarm, of many species. CAMOUS, or CA-MOYS, a. [Fr.camus.] Flat; depressed; CAMP, n. [L. campus; Fr. camp and champ.) 1. The ground on which an army pitch their tents. 2. The order or arrangement of tents, or disposition of an army, for 3. An army. Hume. CAMP, r.t. or 1. To rest or lodge, as an army, usually in teate; to pitch a camp; to fix tents; but seldom used. Be ENCAMP. CAMP-FIGHT, n. In law writers, a trial by duel, or the legal combat of two champions. CAMPAIGN, (kam-panel) [Fr. campagne.] 1. An CAM PAIN, open field; a large, open plain; an exBensive tract of ground without considerable hills. [See CHAMPAIGN.) 2. The time that an army keeps the field, either in action, marches, or in camp, without entering Into winter quarters. CAM-PAIGN, v. i. To serve in a campaign. CAM-PHORIC, a. Pertaining to camphor. CAMPHOR-TREE, n. The tree from which camphor a obtained, found in Borneo and Japan. CAM-PIL/LA, n. A plant of a new genus, used by dyers. CAMPING, ppr. Encamping. CAMPING, n. A playing at football. Bryant. CAMPI-ON, n. A plant, the popular naine of the lychnis. CAMUS, or CAMAS, n. [L. camisa.] A thin dress. [Not English.] Spenser. CAN, n. [D. kan; Sax. canna.] A cupor vessel for liquors ΕΑΝ, v.1. pret. could, which is from another root. See COULD.) [Sax. cunnan. to know, to be able; Dan. kan, to be able. To be able; to have sufficient moral or physical power, or capacity. CAN, v. t. To know. Spenser. CAN-BUOY, n. In seamanship, a buoy in form of a cone. CAN-HOOK, n. An instrument to sling a cask by the ends of its staves CA-NA DI-AN, a. Pertaining to Canada. CA-NA DI-AN, n. An inhabitant or native of Car.ada. CA-NAL, n. [L. canalis.] 1. A passage for water; a CAN-A-LICU-LATE, a. [L. canaliculatus.] ChannelCAN-A-LICAU-LA-TED, ed; furrowed. In botany, having a deep longitudinal groove above, and convex underneath. CA-NARY, n. 1. Wine made in the Canary isles. 2. An old dance. Shakspeare has used the word as a verb in a kind of cant phrase. CA-NARY, v. i. To dance; to frolic. CA-NARY-BIRD, n. A singing bird from the Canary isles, a species of fringilla. OA-NARY-GRASS, n. A plant, the phalaris. CANCE-LA-TED, a. [L. cancellatus.] Cross-barred; marked with cross lines. CAN-CE-LATION, n. The act of defacing by cross lines; a canceling. CANCELED, pp. Crossed; obliterated; annulled. CANCEL-ING, ppr. Crossing; obliterating; annulling. CANCER, n. [L. cancer; Sax. cancre.] 1. The crab, or crab-fish.-2. In astronomy, one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, the sign of the summer solstice, represented by the form of a crab. 3. In medicine, a roundish, hard, unequal, scirrous tumor of the glands, which usually ulcerates, is very painful, and generally fatal. CANCER-ATE, τ. i. To grow into a cancer; to become CAN CER-OUS-NESS, n. The state of being cancerous. CAMPAIGN ER, (kam på ner) n. Une who has served in CAN CRI FORM, a. 1. Cancerous. 2. Having the form 49aumy veral campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran. CAMPANA, n. [L.] The pasque-flower. CAM-PANI-A. The same as campaign. CAMPANI-PORM, a. [L. campana.) In the shape of a bos, applied to flowers. CAM PA NOLOGY, n. [L. campana.] The art of ringing of a cancer or crab. CAN CRINE, a. Having the qualities of a crab. CAN CRITE, n. A fossil or petrified crab. CAN DENT, a. [L. candens.] Very hot; heated to white ness; glowing with heat. CAN DI-CANT, a. Growing white. Dict. CANDID, a. [L.. candidus.] 1. White. Dryden. [But in this sense rarely used.] 2. Fair; open; frank; ingenuous; free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice. 3. Fair; just; impartial. CAN DI-DATE, n. [L. candidatus.] 1. A man who seeks or aspires to an office. 2. One who is in contemplation for an office, or for preferment. 3. One who, by his services or actions, will or may justly obtain preferment or reward, or whose conduct tends to secure it. 4. A man who is qualified, according to the rules of the church, to preach the gospel, and take the charge of a parish or religious society, and proposes to settle in the ministry. U. States. 5. One who is in a state of trial or probation. CANDI-DATE, v. t. To render fit as a candidate. Felt ham. CAN DID-LY, ade. Openly; frankly; without trick or disguise; ingenuously. CAN DID-NESS, n Openness of mind; frankness; fairness; ingenuousness. CAN DIED, pp. or a. Preserved with sugar, or incrusted CAN/DI-FY, v. t. To make white, or candid. with it; covered with crystals of sugar or ice, or with || CANK'ER-WORM, n. A worm, destructive to trees or matter resembling them. CANDI-FY, v. i. To become candid. CAN'DLE, n. [L., Sp., It., candela.] 1. A long, but small | cylindrical body of tallow, wax or spermaceti, formed on a wick, used for a pertable light of domestic use. 2. A light. 3. A light; a luminary. CAN DLE-BER-RY-TREE, n. The myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle. CANDLE-BOMB, n. A small glass bubble, filled with water, placed in the wick of a candle, where it bursts with a report. CANDLE-HOLD-ER, n. A person that holds a candle. CANDLE-LIGHT, n. The light of a candle; the necessary candles for use. CANDLE-MAS, n. [candle and mass, Sax. massa; candle-feast.] The feast of the church, celebrated on the second day of February, in honor of the purification of the Virgin Mary; so called from the great number of lights used on that occasion. CANDLE-STICK, K, n. [Sax.candel-sticca.] An instruinent or utensil to hold a candle. CANDLE-STUFF, n. A material of which candles are made, as tallow, wax, &c. CANDLE-WASTER, n. One who wastes or consumes candles; a hard student; a spendthrift. Shak. CANDLES-ENDS, n. Scraps; fragments. CAN DOC, n. A plant or weed that grows in rivers. CAN'DOR, n. [L. candor.] Openness of heart; frankness; ingenuousness of mind; a disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from tricks or disguise; sincerity. CANDY, v. t. (It. candire.] 1. To conserve or dress with sugar; to boil in sugar. 2. To form into congelations or crystals. 3. To cover or incrust with congelations, or crystals of ice. plants. In America, this name is given to a worm that, in some years, destroys the eaves and fruit of apple-trees. CANK'ER-Y, a. Rusty. CANNA-BINE, a. [L. cannabinus.) Pertaining to hemp: hempen. *CANINEL-COAL, or CANDLE-COAL, n. A bard, opake, inflammable fossil coal of a black color, sufficiently solid to be cut and polished. 2 CAN NE-QUIN, n. White cotton cloth from the East Indies, suitable for the Guinea trade. CAN/NI-BAL, n. A human being that eats human flesh; a man-eater, or anthropophagite. CAN'NI-BAL-ISM, n. 1. The act or practice of eating iuman flesh, by mankind. 2. Murderous cruelty; barbarity. CAN/NI-BAL-LY, ade. In the manner of a cannibal Shak CAN'NI-PERS. See CALLIPERS. CAN'NON, n. [Fr. canon.] A large military engine for throwing balls, and other instruments of death, by the force of gunpowder. CAN-NON-ADE', n. The act of discharging cannon and throwing balls, for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort. CAN-NON-ADE', v. t. To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon-shot. CAN-NON-ADE', v. i. To discharge cannon; to play with large guns. CAN NON-BALL, n. A ball, usually made of cast-iron, to be thrown from cannon.- Cannon-bullet, of the like signi fication, is not now used. CAN-NON-EER', ) *. A man who manages cannon; an enCAN-NON-IER, gineer. CAN NON-ING, n. The noise as it were of a cannon, Brewer. CANDY, v. i. To form into crystals, or become congealed; to take on the form of candied sugar. CAN NON-PROOF, a. Proof against cannon-shot. CAN NON-SHOT, n. A ball for cannon; also, the range or distance a cannon will throw a ball. CAN'DY-ING, ppr. Conserving with sugar. CANDY-ING, n. The act of preserving simples in sub- || CAN NOT, [can and not.] These words are usually united, stance, by boiling them in sugar. but perhaps without good reason; canst and not are never CANDY-LION'S-FOOT, n. A plant. Miller. united. flower. of a tube. CAN DY-TUFT-TREE, n. A plant. Chambers. CANE, n. [L. canna.] 1. In botany, this term is applied to several species of plants. [See SUGAR-CANE.] 2. A walking-stick. 3. Alance or dart made of cane. Dryden. 4. A long measure, in several countries of Europe. CANE, v. t. To beat with a cane or walking-stick. CANE-BRAKE, n. A thicket of canes. CA-NOE, (ka-noo') n. [Fr. canot; Sp. canoa.] 1. A boat formed of the body or trunk of a tree excavated. 2. A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages. CANE-HOLE, n. A hole or trench for planting the cuttings of cane, on sugar plantations. CANE-TRASH, n. Refuse of canes. CA-NES CENT, a. [L. canescens.] Growing white or hoary. CA-NICU-LA, or CA'NI-CULE, n. [L. canicula.] A star in the constellation of Canis Major, called also the dogstar, or Sirius. CA-NICU-LAR, a. [L. canicularis.] Pertaining to the dog-star. CA-NINE', a. [L. caninus.] Pertaining to dogs; having the properties or qualities of a dog; as, a canine appetite, insatiable hunger; canine madness, or hydrophobia.-Canine teeth are two sharp-pointed teeth in each jaw of an animal, one on each side, between the incisors and grinders; so named from their resemblance to a dog's teeth. CANING, n. A beating with a stick or cane. CANIS-TER, n. [L. canistrum. Properly, a small basket, as in Dryden; but more generally, a small box or case, for tea, coffee, &c. CANK'ER, n. [L. cancer, Sax. cancere, or cancre.] 1. A disease incident to trees, which causes the bark to rot and fall. 2. A popular name of certain small eroding ulcers in the mouth, particularly of children. 3. A virulent, corroding ulcer; or any thing that corrodes, corrupts, or destroys. 4. An eating, corroding, virulent humor; corrosion. 5. A kind of rose, the dog-rose.-6. In farriery, a running thrush of the worst kind; a disease in horses' feet. CANKER, v.t 1. To eat, corrode, corrupt, consume, in the manner that a cancer affects the body. 2. To infect, or pollute. CANK ER, v. i. To grow corrupt; to decay, or waste away by means of any noxious cause; to grow rusty, or to be oxydized, as a metal. CANK'ER-BIT. a. Bitten with a cankered or envenomed tooth. Shak. CANKERED, pp. 1. Corrupted. 2. a. Crabbed; uncivil. CANK ER-ED-LY, adv. Crossly; adversely. CANK ER-LIKE, a. Eating or corrupting like a canker. CANK'ER-OUS, a. Corroding like a canker. CANON, n. [Sax., Fr., Sp., Port. canon.] 1. In ecclesiastical affairs, a law, or rule of doctrine or discipline. 2. A law or rule in general. 3. The genuine books of the Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon. 4. A dignitary of the church. Regular canons live in monasteries or in community, and to the practice of their rules have added the profession of vows-5 In monasteries, a book containing the rules of the order. 6. A catalogue of saints canonized. 7. The secret words of the mass from the preface to the Pater.-8. In ancient music, a rule or method for determining the intervals of notes.-9. In modern music, a kind of perpetual fugue, in which the different parts, beginning one after another, repeat incessantly the same air. Busby.-10. In geometry and algebra, a general rule for the solution of cases of a like nature with the present inquiry. Every last step of an equation is a canon.-11 In pharmacy, a rule for compounding medicines.-12. In surgery, an instrument used in sewing up wounds.Canon-law is a collection of ecclesiastical laws, serving as the rule of church government. CANON-BIT, n. That part of a bit let into a horse's mouth. CANON-ESS, n. A woman who enjoys a prebend, affixed, by the foundation, to maids, without obliging them to make any vows, or renounce the world. CA-NONIC, a. Canonical. CA-NONI-CAL, a. [L. canonicus.] Pertaining to a canon according to the canon or rule.-Canonical books, or canonical Scriptures, are those books of the Scriptures which are admitted, by the canons of the church, to be of divine origin. CA-NONI-CAL-LY, adv. In a manner agreeable to the canon. CA-NONI-CAL-NESS, n. The quality of being canonical CA-NONI-CALS, n. plu. The full dress of the clergy, worn when they officiate. ΕΑ-ΝΟΝΙ-ΕATE, n. The office of a canon. CANON-IST, n. A professor of canon law; one skilled in the study and practice of ecclesiastical law. CAN-ON-ISTIC, a. Having the knowledge of a canonist. CAN-ON-I-ZATION, n. 1. The act of declaring a man a saint, or the act of ranking a deceased person in the catalogue of saints. 2. The state of being sainted. ΘΑΝΙΟΝ-ΙΖΕ, v. t. To declare a man a saint, and rank him in the catalogue called a canon. CANON-RY, n. An ecclesiastical benefice in a catheCANON-SHIP, dral of collegiate church |