A country in North America, bordering the United States on the north. It is a federation which includes English-speaking provinces and the French-speaking Province of Quebec.

A small ca/on; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.

Of or pertaining to Canada. A native or inhabitant of Canada.

a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree (Cassia fistula) having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; it grows in tropical Asia, Central and South America, and Australia.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

A little can or cup.

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

A minute canal.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.

to provide with a canal, as of a city.

A sofa or divan.

An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.

a form of rummy using two decks and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to meld groups of seven of the same rank.

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.

a genus of herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics.

An amino acid found in the jack bean.

The capital city of Australia. Population (2000) = 307,700.

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.

To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.

Cancellarean.

Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.

Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.

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 nave of a church, or in a window.

Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

To grow into a cancer; to become cancerous.

The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.

Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.

Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.

a sage of eastern U. S. (Salvia lyrata).

a natural family including many of the best known edible crabs.

Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.

Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.

A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.

Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.

Fluor spar. See Kand.

the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.

a branched, ornamental candlestick having several sockets for candles.

A lamp stand of any sort. A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.

either of two Mexican shrubs Pedilanthus bracteatus or Pedilanthus pavonis.

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.

An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.

See Incandescence.

Glowing; luminous; incandescent.

Growing white.

White.

any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.

The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.

One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.

Candidacy.

The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.

Candidacy.

an infection caused by fungi of the genera Monilia or Candida, especially Candida albicans.

In a candid manner.

The quality of being candid.

To make or become white, or candied.

Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary.

A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.

A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.

A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.

A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it The beshow.

One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance.

The light of a candle.

a person who makes or sells candles.

The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day.

The fruit of a euphorbiaceous tree or shrub (Aleurites moluccana), native of some of the Pacific islands. It is used by the natives as a candle, the nut kernels being strung together. The oil from the nut (candlenut oil or kekune oil) has many uses, including as a varnish.

A form of bowling pin slender and nearly straight like a candle. The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.

An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.

One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.

any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light.

A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).

A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature; -- called commonly cotton candy.

someone who makes candies and other sweets.

An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the Iberis umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia (The Italian name for Crete). It is grown as an ornamental plant, having tufted red,violet, purple, or pink flowers.

bog plant (Polygala lutea) of pine barrens of southeastern U.S. having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers.

To beat with a cane.

a type of rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) inhabiting southeastern U.S. swamps and lowlands; -- called also swamp rabbit.

A thicket of canes.

Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.

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

A large evergreen shrub or small tree (Canella alba or Canella winterana) having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes. Its bark is called wild cinnamon.

a natural family having one genus: aromatic tropical trees of East Africa and Florida to West Indies.

Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.

A very broad and heavy wooden collar which certain offenders in China are compelled to wear as a punishment.

The Dog Star; Sirius.

Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.

Canicula.

any doglike animal of the family canidae.

a natural family of doglike mammals including the domestic dogs, wolves, jackals, foxes, hyenas, and coyotes.

See Canine, a.

A canine tooth.

something made of interlaced slender branches of especially willow.

A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canid/, including the dogs and wolves.

a tropical tree of Florida and West Indies (Pouteria campechiana nervosa) yielding edible fruit.

A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.

To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.

Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.

Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.

Fretfully; spitefully.

Affecting like a canker.

The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larv/ are also called cankerworms.

Like a canker; full of canker.

A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (Canna Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States.

A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties.

a grouping of plants containing two genera of erect or twining wind-pollinated herbs, the genera Cannabis and Humulus; this term is not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae.

A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The euphoric and narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin; the active ingredient is tetrahydrocannabinol, THC. See Cannabis Indica, below.

Pertaining to hemp; hempen.

A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricace/; hemp.

A natural family of plants coextensive with the genus Canna.

the name of a battle in which Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 b. c. Called also battle of Cannae.

Recorded; in contrast with live; -- used of sound or video broadcasts.

Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary.

A style of interweaving giving to fabrics a channeled or fluted effect; also, a fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep.