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Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.

of being placed end to end, are arranged side by side, and at a distance suitable for the formation of the arc at the tip; - - called also, from the name of the inventor, Jablockoff candle. -- Excommunication by inch of candle, a form of excommunication in which the offender is allowed time to repent only while a cand…

North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

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

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

Having the form of a tube; tubular. [Written also canular.]

A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.

either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.

les 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 ecclesiastical laws, and appropr…

A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. Knight.

nks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, to complete the connection.

te of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.

d 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 operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.

A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

The English form of the Spanish word Cañon.

manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. Mineral caoutchouc. See under Mineral.

Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as: