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

To divide into cantons or small districts.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

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

Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. Carton pierre (, a species of papier-maché, imitating stone or bronze sculpture. Knight.

Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.

Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. Hansard.

The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.

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

Ciclatoun. [Obs.]

An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.

A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.

Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

Closemouthed; silent. "Close-tongued treason." Shak.

A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

Cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.]