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ometimes, any distinctive professional dress. Full canonicals, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.

The office of a canon; a canonry.

To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.

The sulter's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.

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.

Of or belonging to a cantor. Cantoral staff, the official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers.

One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.

on, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing heat. Substances differ in the amount of heat requisite to raise them a given number of thermometr…

, 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 pigeon. -- Cape wine, wine made in South Africa [Eng.] -- The Cape, the Cape of Good Hope, in the general sense of southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn, and, in…

A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.

pital punishment. Many crimes that are capital among us. Swift. To put to death a capital offender. Milton.

A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.

A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.

A head, or chief officer; as:

The rank, post, or commission of a captain. Washington. Captaincy general, the office, power, teritory, or jurisdiction of a captain general; as, the captaincy general of La Habana (Cuba and its islands).

The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.

To exalt to the office of a cardinal. Sheldon.

The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal

he other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

nvey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. Ba…