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.
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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.
A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.
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.
A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.
The English form of the Spanish word Ca/on.
A song or air for one or more voices, of Proven/al origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal. An instrumental piece in the madrigal style.
A short song, in one or more parts.
An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization.
See Caoutchin.
To uncover the head respectfully.
The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.
Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault.
The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
to become active so as to be able to penetrate an ovum; -- of sperm, in the female reproduction system.
To quality.
Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor.
In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively.
The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.
an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored.
To render capable; to enable; to qualify.
of or pertaining to capacitance.
a device used in electronic circuits to hold electrical charge, consisting of two conducting plates separated by a nonconducting (dielectric) medium; it is characterized by its capacitance.
The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
See Cap-a-pie.
From head to foot; at all points.
An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, especially when decorative.
A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.
A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest.
To gape.
A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
See Capelin.
Either of two small marine fishes formerly classified in the family Salmonid/, now within the smelt family Osmeridae: Mallotus villosus, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska; or Mallotus catervarius, found in the North Pacific. The Atlantic variety has been used as a bait for the cod.
A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.
A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.
The curate of a chapel; a chaplain.
The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.
A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down.
The musical director in a royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master.
The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.
The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.
A species of black Old World grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods and horse of the wood.
To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse.
One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.
a European weed (Hypochaeris radicata) widely naturalized in North America, having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears.
As much as will fill a cap.
A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.
See Capybara.
Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.
A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.
A filament.
The quality of being capillary.
A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
A capillary blood vessel.
A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair.
In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.
Having much hair; hairy.
Hooded; cowled.
Of or pertaining to the head.
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