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.

a tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese.

A groove in any cylinder; specif., a groove around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold.

A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on.

Relating to cannibals or cannibalism.

resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.

The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.

same as cannibalise.

to use parts of (something, such as a machine), to repair something else.

In the manner of cannibal.

A small can or drinking vessel.

In a canny manner.

Caution; crafty management.

See Carom.

To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.

Furnished with cannon.

The use of cannon.

A man who manages, or fires, cannon.

Cannon, collectively; artillery.

A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar.

Having the form of a tube; tubular.

Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle.

A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.

To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.

The act or art of using a canoe.

A canoeman.

One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe.

A law or rule.

A small ca/on.

A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.

Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons.

In a canonical manner; according to the canons.

The quality of being canonical; canonicity.

The dress prescribed by canon{2} to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.

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.

Of or pertaining to a canonist.

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

A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

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

a jar used in ancient Egyptian tombs to contain the intestines of a person who was mummified for burial; -- also called canopic vase.

covered with or as with a canopy; as, a canopied bed; streets canopied by stately trees.

To cover with, or as with, a canopy.

Melodious; musical.

The quality of being musical.

Candlestick.

to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.

A Cantabrigian.

A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.

Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.

A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.

A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.

A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color.

Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.

A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.

A singing.

Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing.

A female professional singer.

Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window.

A small vessel used by soldiers or hikers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink.

See Cantle.

One who cants or whines; a beggar.

A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas / Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.

Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.

See Cantharis.

The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.

A beetle (Lytta vesicatoria, syn. Cantharis vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.

The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.

The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.

A song; esp. a little song or hymn.

A social gathering; usually, one for dancing.

Same as Cantle, v. t.

See Cantabile.

Same as Cantalever.

To chant; to recite with musical tones.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

See Canteen.

The use of cant; hypocrisy.

A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandi/re.

A song or verses.

To cut in pieces; to cut out from.

A piece; a fragment; a corner.

One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.

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

Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

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.

A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.

A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.

Of or belonging to a cantor.

Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall.

A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales.

A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief.

Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.

A Canadian.

See Cannula, Cannular, and Cannulated.

Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.

Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a canvass of votes.

One who canvasses.

Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes.