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A kind of type. See Canon. Cannon ball, strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are prope…

See Canon Bone.

The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott.

Furnished with cannon. [Poetic] "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.

A man who manages, or fires, cannon.

The use of cannon. Burke.

Cannon, collectively; artillery. The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving.

Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.

or injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar. [Written also canula.]

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

Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle. [Written also canulated.]

Reputed to have magical powers. Sir W. Scott. No canny, not safe, not fortunate; unpropitious. [Scot.]

or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.

The act or art of using a canoe.

A canoeman.

One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe. Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman. Parkman.

A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self- slaughter. Shak.

That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.

The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.

A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]