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Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.

The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.

l e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor. Massinger.

Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star. Canicular days, the dog days, See Dog days. -- Canicular year, the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.

A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.

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

A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceæ; hemp. Cannabis Indica (, the Indian hemp, a powerful narcotic, now considered a variety of the common hemp.

Having pleasing of useful qualities; gentle. Burns.

A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages. A birch canoe, with paddles, rising, falling, on the water. Longfellow.

The act or art of using a canoe.

o uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe. Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman. Parkman.

ort the bulkneads. Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.

In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.

A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.

A singing. [Obs.] Blount.

Caontaining cant or affectation; whining; singing. [R.]

A female professional singer.

A rapid or easy passing over. A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics. Sir J. Stephen.

Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. - Cant"ing*ly, adv. -- Cant"ing*ness, n. Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear thre…

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