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A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self- slaughter. Shak.

That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.

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 deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]

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.

Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds…

; according to the canons.

The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet.

The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when oficiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress. Full canonicals, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.

The office of a canon; a canonry.

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.

Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.

llowing beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.

e (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.

ht to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

Of pertaining to Canopus in egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming.

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.

To deprive of canonical authority.