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port on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.

A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.

ith the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct. I belched a hurricane of wind. Swift.

A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.…

Buccaned meat.

repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. Broome. You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. W. Black.

The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.

Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes. Milton.

Chief; superior. [R.] captain jewes in the carcanet. Shak.

A carcanet. Southey.

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.

a, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. -- Wild cinnamon. See Canella.

or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn. And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Pope.

Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.

Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.

t), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic…