CPage 33
- English Word Canary Definition A quick and lively dance.
- English Word Canary Definition To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.
- English Word Canary bird Definition A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.
- English Word Canaster Definition A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.
- English Word Cancan Definition A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.
- English Word Cancel Definition To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
- English Word Cancel Definition To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
- English Word Cancel Definition To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
- English Word Cancel Definition To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
- English Word Cancel Definition To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
- English Word Cancel Definition An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
- English Word Cancel Definition The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
- English Word Cancel Definition The part thus suppressed.
- English Word Canceled Definition of Cancel
- English Word Canceleer Definition The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.
- English Word Cancelier Definition To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.
- English Word Cancelier Definition Alt. of Canceleer
- English Word Canceling Definition of Cancel
- English Word Cancellarean Definition Cancellarean.
- English Word Cancellate Definition Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.
- English Word Cancellate Definition Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.
- English Word Cancellated Definition Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.
- English Word Cancellated Definition Open or spongy, as some porous bones.
- English Word Cancellation Definition The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
- English Word Cancellation Definition The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
- English Word Cancelled Definition of Cancel
- English Word Cancelli Definition 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 nave of a church, or in a window.
- English Word Cancelli Definition The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.
- English Word Cancelling Definition of Cancel
- English Word Cancellous Definition Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.