Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C

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Camper (n.) One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp, especially who sleeps in a wilderness for recreation.

Campestral (a.) Alt. of Campestrian.

Campestrian (a.) Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.

Campestral (a.) Of fields or open country; "living in campestral seclusion."

Camp follower (n.) [ C ] （支援某政黨或組織但並非其成員的）追隨者 A person who is interested in and supports a particular political party or other organization but is not a member of it.

Camp follower (ph.) 隨軍流動以謀生的平民（尤指營妓）；應聲蟲 A civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.

Campfight (n.) (O. Eng. Law.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.

Compare: Terebene

Terebene (n.) (Chem.) A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene.

By extension, any one of a group of related substances.

Camphene (n.) (Chem.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

Camphine (n.) Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

Note: The name is also applied to a mixture of this substance with three times its volume of alcohol and sometimes a little ether, used as an illuminant.

Camphire (n.) An old spelling of Camphor.

Compare: Cymene

Cymene (n.) (Chem.) A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

Camphogen (n.) (Chem.) See Cymene.

Compare: Borneol

Borneol (n.) (Chem.) 【化】龍腦 A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra ({Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

Camphol (n.) (Chem.) See Borneol.

Camphor (n.) A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.

Camphor (n.) originally, a gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree ({Dryobalanops aromatica formerly Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; now applied to its main constituent, a terpene alcohol obtainable as a white solid C10H18O, called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, Malayan camphor, camphor of Borneo, Sumatra camphor, bornyl alcohol, camphol, and borneol. The isomer from Dryobalanops is dextrorotatory; the levoratatory form is obtainable from other species of plants, and the racemic mixture may be obtained by reduction of camphor. It is used in perfumery, and for manufacture of its esters. See Borneol.

Note: The name camphor is also applied to a number of bodies of similar appearance and properties, as

camphor, obtained from the red or pencil cedar ({Juniperus Virginiana), and peppermint camphor, or menthol, obtained from the oil of peppermint.

Camphor oil (Chem.), Name variously given to certain oil-like products, obtained especially from the camphor tree.

Camphor tree, A large evergreen tree ({Cinnamomum Camphora) with lax, smooth branches and shining triple-nerved lanceolate leaves, probably native in China, but now cultivated in most warm countries. Camphor is collected by a process of steaming the chips of the wood and subliming the product.

Camphor (v. t.) To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. [R.] -- Tatler.

Camphor (n.) A resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment.

Camphoraceous (a.) Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. -- Dunglison.

Camphoraceous (a.) being or having the properties of camphor; "camphoraceous odor."

Camphorate (v. t.) To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Camphorate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of camphoric acid. Camphorate

Camphorate () Alt. of Camporated.

Camporated () Combined or impregnated with camphor.

Camphorated oil, An oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.

Camphorate (v.) Treat with camphor.

Camphoric (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor.

Camphoric acid, A white crystallizable substance, C10H16O4, obtained from the oxidation of camphor.

Note: Other acids of camphor are campholic acid, C10H18O2, and camphoronic acid, C9H12O5, white crystallizable substances.

Camphoric (a.) Relating to or derived from or containing camphor; "camphoric liniments."

Camphretic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from camphor. [R.]

Camping (n.) Lodging in a camp.

Camping (n.) A game of football. [Prov. Eng.]

Camping (n.) The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn: camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting].

Campion (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.

Bladder campion, A plant of the Pink family ({Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. See Behen.

Rose campion, A garden plant ({Lychnis coronaria"> Rose campion, a garden plant ({Lychnis coronaria) with handsome crimson flowers.

Campion (n.) Any plant of the genus Silene [syn: silene, campion, catchfly].

Campion, CO -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Colorado

Population (2000): 1832

Housing Units (2000): 653

Land area (2000): 3.773716 sq. miles (9.773880 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.022472 sq. miles (0.058203 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 3.796188 sq. miles (9.832083 sq. km)

FIPS code: 11590

Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08

Location: 40.348257 N, 105.089095 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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Headwords:

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Campus (n.) 校園，校區 [C]；大學，學院 [C] The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

Campus (n.) A college or university.

Campus (n.) A division of a university with its own buildings and a separate faculty, especially one separated geographically from other divisiona, but sharing top administration with other units of the university; as, the Newark campus of Rutgers.

Campus (n.) Higher education considered as a whole; as, the financial effects of research cutbacks on the campus.

Campus (n.) A business site with pleasant landscaping; as, the Squibb research campus at Princeton.

Campus (n.) A field on which the buildings of a university are situated.

Campus (n.) [ C or U ] (B2) （大學）校園，校區 The buildings of a college or university and the land that surrounds them.

// There's accommodation for about five hundred students on campus.

Campylospermous (a.) (Bot.) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.

Campylotropous (a.) (Bot.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

Campylotropous (a.) (Of a plant ovule) Curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk [ant: orthotropous].

Compare: Camis

Camis (n.) [See Chemise.] A light, loose dress or robe. [Also written camus.] [Obs.]

All in a camis light of purple silk. -- Spenser. Camisade

Camus (n.) See Camis. [Obs.]

Camus (n.) French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960) [syn: Camus, Albert Camus].

Camwood (n.) See Barwood.

Camwood (n.) Small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye [syn: camwood, African sandalwood, Baphia nitida].

Can (v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans [U. S.] "Canned meats" -- W. D. Howells.

Canned goods, A general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.

Can (v. t. & i.)

Note: [The transitive use is obsolete.] [imp. Could.] [OE. cunnen, cannen (1st sing. pres. I can), to know, know how, be able, AS. cunnan, 1st sing. pres. ic cann or can, pl. cunnon, 1st sing. imp. c[=u][eth]e (for cun[eth]e); p. p. c[=u][eth] (for cun[eth]); akin to OS. Kunnan, D. Kunnen, OHG. chunnan, G. k["o]nnen, Icel. kunna, Goth. Kunnan, and E. ken to know. The present tense I can (AS. ic cann) was originally a preterit, meaning I have known or Learned, and hence I know, know how. [root]45. See Ken, Know; cf. Con, Cunning, Uncouth.]

Can (v. t. & i.) To know; to understand. [Obs.]

I can rimes of Robin Hood. -- Piers Plowman.

I can no Latin, quod she. -- Piers Plowman.

Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can. -- Shak.

Can (v. t. & i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence. [Obs.]

The will of Him who all things can. -- Milton.

For what, alas, can these my single arms? -- Shak.

M[ae]c[ae]nas and Agrippa, who can most with C[ae]sar. -- Beau. & Fl.

Can (v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.

Syn: Can but, Can not but. It is an error to use the former of these phrases where the sens requires the latter. If we say, "I can but perish if I go," "But" means only, and denotes that this is all or the worst that can happen. When the apostle Peter said. "We can not but speak of the things which we have seen and heard." he referred to a moral constraint or necessety which rested upon him and his associates; and the meaning was, We cannot help speaking, We cannot refrain from speaking. This idea of a moral necessity or constraint is of frequent occurrence, and is also expressed in the phrase, "I can not help it." Thus we say. "I can not but hope," "I can not but believe," "I can not but think," "I can not but remark," etc., in cases in which it would be an error to use the phrase can but.

Yet he could not but acknowledge to himself that there was something calculated to impress awe, . . in the sudden appearances and vanishings . . . of the masque. -- De Quincey.

Tom felt that this was a rebuff for him, and could not but understand it as a left-handed hit at his employer. -- Dickens.

Can () An obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry.

Note: [See Gan.]

With gentle words he can faile gree. -- Spenser.

Can (n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids. -- [Shak. ]

Fill the cup and fill can, Have a rouse before the morn. -- Tennyson.

Can (n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.

Note: A can may be a cylinder open at the top, as for receiving the sliver from a carding machine, or with a removable cover or stopper, as for holding tea, spices, milk, oysters, etc., or with handle and spout, as for holding oil, or hermetically sealed, in canning meats, fruits, etc. The name is also sometimes given to the small glass or earthenware jar used in canning.

Can (n.) Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can].

Can (n.) The quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful].

Can (n.) A buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can buoy].

Can (n.) The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass].

Can (n.) A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne].

Can (n.) A room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom].

Can (v.) Preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty" [syn: can, tin, put up].

Can (v.) Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire].

CAN, () Complete Area Networks (SNI)

CAN, () Controller Area Network [bus] (CAN)

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Canned (imp. & p. p.) of Can.

Canning (p. pr. &vb. n.) of Can.

Could (imp.) of Can.

Canaanite (n.) 迦南人；迦南語 A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.

Canaanite (n.) A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

Canaanite (n.) A zealot. "Simon the Canaanite." -- Matt. x. 4.

Note: This was the "Simon called Zelotes" (-- Luke vi. 15), i.e., Simon the zealot. -- Kitto.

Canaanite (n.) A member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites.

Canaanite (n.) The extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest.

Canaanite () A name given to the apostle Simon (Matt. 10:4; Mark 3:18). The word here does not, however, mean a descendant of Canaan, but is a translation, or rather almost a transliteration, of the Syriac word Kanenyeh (R.V. rendered "Cananaen"), which designates the Jewish sect of the Zealots. Hence he is called elsewhere (Luke 6:15) "Simon Zelotes;" i.e., Simon of the sect of the Zealots. (See SIMON.)

Canaanitish (a.) Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites. Canyada

Cañada (n.) (US, dialect) A small canyon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.

Canada (n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.

Canada (n.) [Sp.] A small ca[~n]on; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

Canada (n.) [Sp.] A dry riverbed.

Canada (n.) 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.

Canada balsam. See under Balsam.

Canada goose. (Zool.) See Wild goose.

Canada jay. See Whisky Jack.

Canada lynx. (Zool.) See Lynx.

Canada lily. (Bot.) A plant of eastern North America ({Lilium canadense) having yellow or orange flowers with dark spots; called also meadow lily. -- RHUD

Canada porcupine (Zool.) See Porcupine, and Urson.

Canada rice (Bot.) See under Rick.

Canada robin (Zool.), The cedar bird.

Canada (n.) A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world."

Canada, () Country with domain "ca."

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Canadian (a.) Of or pertaining to Canada.

Canadian (n.) 加拿大人 A native or inhabitant of Canada.

Canadian period (Geol.), A subdivision of the American Lower Silurian system embracing the calciferous, Quebec, and Chazy epochs. This period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.

Canadian goose, An erroneous variant of Canada goose. canafistola

Canadian (a.) Of or relating to Canada or its people.

Canadian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada.

Canadian (n.) A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma [syn: Canadian, Canadian River].

Canadian -- U.S. County in Oklahoma

Population (2000): 87697

Housing Units (2000): 33969

Land area (2000): 899.714076 sq. miles (2330.248661 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 5.453685 sq. miles (14.124978 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 905.167761 sq. miles (2344.373639 sq. km)

Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40

Location: 35.522312 N, 97.896337 W

Headwords:

Canadian

Canadian, OK

Canadian County

Canadian County, OK

Canadian, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma

Population (2000): 239

Housing Units (2000): 114

Land area (2000): 0.749454 sq. miles (1.941078 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.749454 sq. miles (1.941078 sq. km)

FIPS code: 11450

Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40

Location: 35.175033 N, 95.654947 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 74425

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

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Canadian, TX -- U.S. city in Texas

Population (2000): 2233

Housing Units (2000): 1047

Land area (2000): 1.290028 sq. miles (3.341156 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.290028 sq. miles (3.341156 sq. km)

FIPS code: 12412

Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48

Location: 35.910701 N, 100.383760 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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Headwords:

Canadian, TX

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Canaille (n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

Canaille (n.) Shorts or inferior flour. [Canadian]

Canakin (n.) A little can or cup. "And let me the canakin clink." --Shak.

Canal (n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

Canal (n.) (Anat.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

Canal (n.) A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; -- used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal. [Alaska]

Canal boat, A boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal.

Canal lock. See Lock.

Canal (n.) (Astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion.

Canal (n.) A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs" [syn: duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel].

Canal (n.) Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation.

Canal (v.) Provide (a city) with a canal [syn: canal, canalize, canalise].

Canal. () A trench dug for leading water in a particular direction, and confining it.

Canal. () Public canals are generally protected by the law which authorizes their being made. Various points have arisen under numerous laws authorizing the construction of canals, which have been decided in cases reported in 1 Yeates, 430; 1 Binn. 70; 1 Pennsyl. 462; 2 Pennsyl. 517; 7 Mass. 169; 1 Sumu. 46; 20 Johns. 103, 735; 2 Johns. 283; 7 John. Ch. 315; 1 Wend. 474; 5 Wend. 166; 8 Wend. 469; 4 Wend. 667; 6 Cowen, 698; 7 Cowen, 526 4 Hamm. 253; 5 Hamm. 141, 391; 6 Hamm. 126; 1 N. H. Rep. 339; See River.

Canal coal () See Cannel coal. Canaliculate

Canaliculate (a.) Alt. of Canaliculated.

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

Canaliculate (a.) Having thin parallel channels; "canaliculate leafstalks of certain plants."

Canaliculi (n. pl. ) of Canaliculus.

Canaliculus (n.) (Anat.) A minute canal.

Canaliculus (n.) A small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants.

Canalization (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

Canalization (n.) The production of a canal or a conversion to canals [syn: canalization, canalisation].

Canalization (n.) Management through specified channels of communication [syn: channelization, channelisation, canalization, canalisation].

Canard (n.) 謬傳（尤指惡意編選的） An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

Canard (n.) A deliberately misleading fabrication.

Canarese (a.) Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

Canarese (n.) A member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India [syn: Kanarese, Canarese].

Canary (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.

Canary (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.

Canary grass, A grass of the genus Phalaris ({Phalaris Canariensis), producing the seed used as food for canary birds.

Canary stone (Min.), A yellow species of carnelian, named from its resemblance in color to the plumage of the canary bird.

Canary wood, The beautiful wood of the trees Persea Indica and Persea Canariensis, natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands.

Canary vine. See Canary bird flower, under Canary bird.

Canaries (n. pl. ) of Canary.

Canary (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. "A cup of canary." -- Shak.

Canary (n.) A canary bird.

Canary (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.

Canary (n.) A quick and lively dance. [Obs.]

Make you dance canary With sprightly fire and motion. -- Shak.

Canary (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. [Obs.]

But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet. -- Shak.

Canary (a.) Having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow [syn: canary, canary-yellow].

Canary (n.) Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary].

Canary (n.) A female singer.

Canary (n.) A moderate yellow with a greenish tinge [syn: canary yellow, canary].

Canary (n.) Any of several small Old World finches [syn: canary, canary bird].

Canary bird (n.) (Zool.) 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.

Canary bird flower (Bot.), A climbing plant ({Trop[ae]olum peregrinum) with canary-colored flowers of peculiar form; -- called also canary vine.

Canary bird (n.) Any of several small Old World finches [syn: canary, canary bird].

Canaster (n.) 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. -- McElrath.

Compare: Buoy

Buoy (n.) (Naut.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.

Anchor buoy, A buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor.

Bell buoy, A large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves.

Breeches buoy. See under Breeches.

Cable buoy, An empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.

Can buoy, A hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped.

Life buoy, A float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them.

Nut buoy or Nun buoy, A buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end.

To stream the buoy, To let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.

Whistling buoy, A buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves.

Can buoy () See under Buoy, n.

Can buoy (n.) A buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can buoy].

Cancan (n.) [F.] A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

Cancan (n.) A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line.

Canceled (imp. & p. p.) of Cancel.

Cancelled () of Cancel.

Canceling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cancel.

Cancelling () of Cancel.

Cancel (v. i.) 刪去，劃掉；勾銷，蓋銷（郵票等）；取消，廢除；中止；抵消，對消[（+out）] (v. i.) 【數】相約，相消；互相抵消；取消；中止 To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.]

A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. -- Evelyn.

Cancel (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." -- Milton.

Cancel (v. i.) 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.

A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. -- Blackstone.

Cancel (v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

The indentures were canceled. -- Thackeray.

He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. -- Sir W. Scott.

Cancel (v. i.) (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

{Canceled figures} (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.

Syn: To blot out; obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See {Abolish}.

Cancel (n.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.]

A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. -- Jer. Taylor.

Cancel (n.) (Print.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

Cancel (n.) (Print.) The part thus suppressed.

Cancel (n.) A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: {natural}, {cancel}].

Cancel (v.) Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill" [syn: {cancel}, {call off}, {scratch}, {scrub}].

Cancel (v.) Make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength" [syn: {cancel}, {offset}, {set off}].

Cancel (v.) Declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" [syn: {cancel}, {strike down}]

Cancel (v.) Remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" [syn: {delete}, {cancel}].

Cancel (v.) Make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets" [syn: {cancel}, {invalidate}].

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Cancelier (v. i.) (Falconry) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] -- Nares.

He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. -- Massinger. Cancelier

Cancelier (n.) Alt. of Canceleer.

Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. [Obs.]

The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach. -- Drayton.

Cancellarean (a.) Cancellarean. [R.]

Cancellate (a.) (Bot.) 【解】多孔的；（骨骼）有海綿似的結構的；【植】網目狀組織的；（葉子）網狀脈的 Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.

Cancellate (a.) (Zool.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.

Cancellate (a.) Having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows [syn: {cancellate}, {cancellated}, {clathrate}].

Cancellate (a.) Having an open or latticed or porous structure [syn: {cancellate}, {cancellated}, {cancellous}].

Cancellated (a.) Crossbarred; marked with cross lines. -- Grew.

Cancellated (a.) (Anat.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones.

Cancellated (a.) Having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows [syn: cancellate, cancellated, clathrate]

Cancellated (a.) Having an open or latticed or porous structure [syn: cancellate, cancellated, cancellous].

Cancellation (n.) 取消；【數】約；相消 The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

Cancellation (n.) (Math.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.

Cancellation (n.) The act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement.

Cancellation (n.) The speech act of revoking or annulling or making void.

Cancellation. () Its general acceptation, is the act of crossing a writing; it is used sometimes to signify the manual operation of tearing or destroying the instrument itself. Hyde v. Hyde, 1 Eq. Cas. Abr. 409; Rob. on Wills, 367, n.

Cancellation. () Cancelling a will, animo revocandi, is a revocation of it, and it is unnecessary to show a complete destruction or obliteration. 2 B. & B. 650; 3 B. & A. 489; 2 Bl. R. 1043; 2 Nott & M'Cord, 272; Whart. Dig. Wills, c.; 4 Mass. 462. When a duplicate has been cancelled, animo revocandi, it is the cancellation of both parts. 2 Lee, Ecc. R. 532.

Cancellation. () But the mere act of cancelling a will is nothing, unless it be done animo revocandi, and evidence is admissible to show, quo animo, the testator cancelled it., 7 Johns. 394 2 Dall. 266; S. C. 2 Yeates, 170; 4 Serg. & Rawle, 297; cited 2 Dall. 267, n.; 3 Hen. & Munf. 502; Rob. on Wills, 365; Lovel, 178; Toll. on Ex'rs, Index, h.t.; 3 Stark. Ev. 1714; 1 Adams' Rep. 529 Mass. 307; 5 Conn. 262; 4 Wend. 474; 4 Wend. 585; 1 Harr. & M'H. 162; 4 Conn. 550; 8 Verm. 373; 1 N. H. Rep. 1; 4 N. H. Rep. 191; 2 Eccl. Rep. 23.

Cancellation. () As to the effect of cancelling a deed, which has not been recorded, see 1 Adams' Rep. 1; Palm. 403; Latch. 226; Gilb. Law, Ev. 109, 110; 2 H. Bl. 263: 2 Johns. 87 1 Greenl. R. 78; 10 Mass. 403; 9 Pick. 105; 4 N. H. Rep. 191; Greenl. Ev. Sec. 265; 5 Conn. 262; 4 Conn. 450; 5 Conn. 86; 2 John. R. 84; 4 Yerg. 375; 6 Mass. 24; 11 Mass. 337; 2 Curt. Ecc. R. 458.

Cancellation. () As to when a court of equity will order an agreement or other instrument to be cancelled and delivered up, see 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3917-22.

Cancellation (n.) [ C or U ] (C1) 取消；撤銷；使作廢 The act of deciding that an organized event will not happen or of stopping an order for something.

// Many trains are subject to cancellation because of the flooding.

// The theatre tickets were sold out, so we waited to see if there were any cancellations (= unwanted returned tickets).

Cancelli (n. pl.) 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.

Cancelli (n. pl.) (Anat.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.

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

Cancellous (a.) Having an open or latticed or porous structure [syn: cancellate, cancellated, cancellous].

Cancer (n.) (Zool.) 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.

Cancer (n.) (Astron.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.

Cancer (n.) (Astron.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.

Cancer (n.) (Med.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.

Note: Four kinds of cancers are recognized: (1) Epithelial cancer, or Epithelioma, in which there is no trabecular framework. See Epithelioma. (2) Scirrhous cancer, or Hard cancer, in which the framework predominates, and the tumor is of hard consistence and slow growth. (3) Encephaloid cancer, Medullary cancer, or Soft cancer, in which the cellular element predominates, and the tumor is soft, grows rapidy, and often ulcerates. (4) Colloid cancer, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three varieties are also called carcinoma.

Cancer cells, Cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping.

Cancer root (Bot.), The name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc.

Tropic of Cancer. See Tropic.

Cancer (n.) Any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream [syn: cancer, malignant neoplastic disease].

Cancer (n.) (Astrology) A person who is born while the sun is in Cancer [syn: Cancer, Crab]

Cancer (n.) A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini.

Cancer (n.) The fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22 [syn: Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab].

Cancer (n.) Type genus of the family Cancridae [syn: Cancer, genus Cancer].

Cancer (n.) (B1) [ C or U ] 癌，癌症 A serious disease that is caused when cells in the body grow in a way that is uncontrolled and not normal, killing normal cells and often causing death.

// He died of liver cancer.

// Cancer of the cervix/ stomach.

// Breast/ bowel/ lung cancer.

// Cancer cells.

// A cancer patient.

// It was a secondary cancer.