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ch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well- flavored meat. [Written also pacane.]

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, pentadecane, or designating an acid related to it.

Wanton; frisky; lustful. [Obs.] J. V. Cane.

The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

Addison. Pithy gall (Zoöl.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.

rth American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.

A rattan cane. [Obs.] Pepys.

One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.

A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.

A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scumming of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor. Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.] -- Rum shrub, a drink…

Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.

e lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.

A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.

The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.

A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon. Spool stand, an article holding spools of thread, turning on pins, -- used by women at their work.

Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane. His weak steps governing And aged limbs on cypress stadle stout. Spenser.

of sugar. (Sugar Making) (a) The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers. (b) The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.