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Like a cancer; cancerous.

Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.

Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.

Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

A form of pin slender and nearly straight like a candle.

To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. B. Jonson.

aining to the family Canidæ, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.

Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." Thomson. Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth.

Like a canker; full of canker.

Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson.

A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. "Golden canoniec and beds of state." Dryden.

A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.

To examine by discussion; to debate. An opinion that we are likely soon to canvass. Sir W. Hamilton.

To aborn with rich dress; to dress. I am caparisoned like a man. Shak.

A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.

The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).

Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

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

ith glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of goats or sweat.