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

A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the secondary circuit of the other, the primary circuit of the latter being connected to the source of supply; also, a system of electric traction in which motors so connected are employed. The cascade…

The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive study of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of textbooks for reference and collateral reading.

bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate. Campbell.

xed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.

Having a casement or casements.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

An old mname for the harpsichord.

The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n.., 2.

Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.

Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.

The act or process of cementing.

Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.

A person or thing that cements.

Of the nature of cement. [R.] Forsyth.

Of or pertaining to a cemetery. "Cemeterial cells." [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites. Ceremonial observances and outward show. Hallam.