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

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

Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as candied sirup.

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

Canna. Cane borer (Zoö.), A beetle (Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc. -- Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for…

A colorless oil obtained from hemp dy distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties.

A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of 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.

iding, to Canterbury; a canter. -- Canterbury table, one of the tales which Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers pass away the time.

To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world. Locke.

To divide into cantons or small districts.

A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. Milman.

A piece or point of land, extending beyind the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promonotory; a headland. 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. -…

An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

Having the flowers gathered into a head.

Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.

The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. The sun was entered into Capricorn. Dryden.

vered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.

ol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this…

zed in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.