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nclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.] A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.

ht; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger.

the stoop. [Obs.] The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.

Cancellarean. [R.]

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.

blind guides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel. Udall.

To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.

An annulling; cancellation. [R.] Ayliffe.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.

To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.

Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: .

The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.

To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate. [R.]

leid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions Grote.

That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.