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vince in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals. Canada balsam. See under Balsam. -- Canada goose. (Zoöl.) See Whisky Jack. -- Canada lynx. (Zoöl.) See Lynx. -- Canada porcupine (Zoöl.) See Porcupine, and Urson. -- Canada rice (Bot.) See under Rick. -- Canada robin (Zoöl.), the cedar bird.…

and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.

nsis, natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands. -- Canary vine. See Canary bird flower, under Canary bird.

he rate of 120 grains, or 7.8 grams, per hour. -- To curse by bell, book and candle. See under Bell.

weet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. Shak. Black canker. See under Black.

y inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.

appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic. -- Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. -- Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ec…

The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy. They shall hear no cant fromF. W. Robertson

ther species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.

The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.

fly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. Mineral caoutchouc. See under Mineral.

A percussion cap. See under Percussion.

e measure of, or depends upon, whzt is called their capacity for heat. See Specific heat, under Heat.

aused bycapillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction. -- Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.

he sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.

See under Tenant.

To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.

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cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc. Atrabiliary capsule. See under Atrabiliary. -- Glisson's capsule, a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown function,…