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

Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

f burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.

A catalogue of saints sckowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

atifacation) 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.

To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.

Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc. By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led. Tennyson.

Cape buffalo (Zoöl.) a large and powerful buffalo of South Africa (Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2. -- Cape jasmine, Cape jassamine. See Jasmine. -- Cape pigeon (Zoöl.), a petrel (Daptium Capense) common off the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of a pig…

The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.] Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. Sir W. Scott.

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.

est being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

A staircase in a spiral form. En caracole ( Etym: [F.], spiral; -- said of a staircase.

6th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.

To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.

ollow of the shoulder in a nearly perpendicular position. In this position the soldier is said to stand, and the musket to be held, at carry. -- To carry all before one, to overcome all obstacles; to have uninterrupted success. -- To carry arms (a) To bear weapons. (b) To serve as a soldier. -- To carry away. (a) (N…

skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.

he full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.