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Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.

Crossbarres; marked with cross lines. Grew.

The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; 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 trees of the order Canellaceæ, growing in the West Indies.

A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.

The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [Obs.] Fuller.

The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.

A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.

The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choirmaster. [Written also kepellmeister.]

Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.

See A cappella.

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.

Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.

A goveror or warden of a castle.

The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act of making into a castle.

a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.