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A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids. [Shak. ] Fill the cup and fill can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.

See under Buoy, n.

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

A colloquial contraction for can not.

A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.

Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.

A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals. Canada balsam. See under Balsam. -- Canada goose. (Zoöl.) See Whisky Jack. -- Canada lynx. (Zoöl.) See Lynx. -- Canada porcupine (Zoöl.) See Porcupine, and Urson. -- Canada rice (Bot.) See under Rick. -- Canada robin (Zoöl.), the c…

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

Of or pertaining to Canada. -- n.

Shorts or inferior flour. [Canadian]

A little can or cup. "And let me the canakin clink." Shak.

A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.

See Cannel coal.

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

A minute canal.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

A sofa or divan.

A sofa having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.

An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.