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A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.

e, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. Halliwell. -- Dumb cane (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. -- Dumb crambo. See under crambo. -- Dumb show. (a) Forme…

The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum. [West Indies] The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards.

Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent. [Obs.] The eximious and arcane science of physic. Fuller.

A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.

Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.

or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.…

A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster. [Obs.]

without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon.

A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

ies from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.

To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.

A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

outh American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy.

romancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 153, 179, 181-3, 237-8.

istinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.

Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.

The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hecdecane; as, hexdecylic alcohol.