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A gum resembing ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.

The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. "A candent vessel." Boyle.

Glowing; luminous; incandescent.

Growing white. [Obs.]

A genus of trees of the order Canellaceæ, growing in the West Indies.

Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.

The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott.

Skillful; knowing; capable. Sir W. Scott.

- Canon law. See under Law. -- Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. -- Honorary canon, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. -- Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a…

The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.…

In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.

A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.

Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.

roducing or containing carbon or coal. Carboniferous age (Geol.), the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegatation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen. -- C…

The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.

An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations: (1) Isothermal expansion to a desired point; (2) adiabatic expansion to a desired point; (3) isothermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.…

A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map.

The act of plowing. [R.]

The act of casting or throwing; a throw.