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Shorts or inferior flour. [Canadian]

A little can or cup. "And let me the canakin clink." Shak.

A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.

See Cannel coal.

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

A minute canal.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

A sofa or divan.

A sofa having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.

An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.

To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. [Obs.] But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet. Shak. CANARY BIRD Ca*na"ry bird`. (Zoöl.)

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. [R.]

Companionable; sociable. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Impanator.

See Coplanar.

Flattened to a level surface. [R.]

Opposed to or against nature; unnatural. [R.] Bp. Rust.