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A song or canto [Obs.] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. Shak.

A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange.

See Cotton flannel.

Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.

ving 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.

To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. Addison.

active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report for instruc…

A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [Obs.]

as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. -- Oriental crape. See Canton crape.

A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton. S. Wells Williams.

, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. Shak. Adam's flannel. (Bot.) See under Adam. -- Canton flannel, Cotton flannel. See Cotton flannel, under Cotton.

The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.

A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage. Hong merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of tradin…

A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.

a matting, floor matting made in China, India, etc., from grass and reeds; -- also called Canton, or China, matting. -- India paper, a variety of Chinese paper, of smooth but not glossy surface, used for printing from engravings, woodcuts, etc. -- India proof (Engraving), a proof impression from an engraved plate, ta…

A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.