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Political operations preceding an election; a canvass. [Cant, U. S.]

A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.

A strong saddle girth, as of canvas. [West. U. S.]

to canvass by distributing letters. Syn. -- circularize. [WordNet 1.5]

ive garment of chain mail. See Chain mail, under Chain. -- Mast coat (Naut.), a piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from getting below. -- Sail coat (Naut.), a canvas cover laced over furled sails, and the like, to keep them dry and clean.

A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. [Written also cott.]

A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

wed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).

A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.

A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition. Easel picture, Easel piece, a painting of moderate size such as is made while resting on an easel, as distinguished from a painting on a wall or ceiling.

schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

Having features; formed into features. The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young.

The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.

sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc. Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Folding chairFolding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.

A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.

A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

ng rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.

A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

shines. Camden. Hay may be dried too much as well as too little. C. L. Flint. Hay cap, a canvas covering for a haycock. -- Hay fever (Med.), nasal catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of dyspnoea, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer seasons. It has been attributed to the…