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Past; gone by. "Bygone fooleries." Shak

A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France.

A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.

See Canon Bone.

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

A man who manages, or fires, cannon.

The use of cannon. Burke.

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 woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. Regular canoness, one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. -- Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

A song or air for one or more voices, of Provençal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.

A short song, in one or more parts.

A young capon. [R.] Chapman.

A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

To broil. [Obs.] "We had a calf's head carboned". Pepys.

Having a flesh color.

One who cautions or advises.

Of or pertaining to Ceylon. -- n. sing. & pl.

A mass of chalk. As chalkstones . . . beaten in sunder. Isa. xxvii. 9.

A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceaæ., natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.