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latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the have of a church, or in a window.

Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.

The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.

Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "Cancerous vices." G. Eliot. -- Can"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Can"cer*ous*ness, n.

Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "cancerous vices" G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]

s strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. Samue…

Luck; chance; accident. Milton. Cowper.

Fortuitous; casual. [Obs.]

By chance. [Obs.]

Hazardous. [Obs.] Spenser.

cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front. Chancel aisle (Arch.), the aisle which passes on either side of or around the chancel. -- Chancel arch (Arch.), the arch which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal window in a chancel. T…

Chancellorship. [Obs.] Gower.

A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

ion at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

Achievement; deed; performance. [Obs.] Fortune, the foe of famous chevisance. Spenser.

An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who practices chiromancy. Dryden.