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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4,818 words match “CAN”

CANARY a. 6 definitions

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

CANARY BIRD n. 2 definitions

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.

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

CANCEL v. 8 definitions

nclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.] A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.

ht; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger.

CANCELIER; CANCELEER n.

the stoop. [Obs.] The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.

CANCELLAREAN a.

Cancellarean. [R.]

CANCELLATE a. 2 definitions

Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.

CANCELLATED a. 2 definitions

Crossbarres; marked with cross lines. Grew.

CANCELLATION n. 2 definitions

The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

CANCELLI n. 2 definitions

An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the have of a church, or in a window.

Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

CANCER n. 4 definitions

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.

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

Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "Cancerous vices." G. Eliot. -- Can"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Can"cer*ous*ness, n.

Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "cancerous vices" G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]

CANCRIFORM a. 2 definitions

Like a cancer; cancerous.

Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.