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plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

A thicket of canes. Ellicott.

Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A genus of trees of the order Canellaceæ, growing in the West Indies.

Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.

Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah. -- n. sing. & pl.

Hidden; secret. [Obs.] "The arcane part of divine wisdom." Berkeley.

To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.

Like a buccaneer; piratical.

Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.

One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

One who uses chicanery. Locke.

se and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.

s of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum. [Written also hendecane.]

ne, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.

ies; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.