Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 12
Canker (v. i.) 產生潰瘍；腐敗起來 To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. -- Bacom.
Canker (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
Deceit and cankered malice. -- Dryden.
As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. -- Shak.
Canker (n.) A fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark.
Canker (n.) An ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth) [syn: canker, canker sore].
Canker (n.) A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst" [syn: pestilence, canker].
Canker (v.) Become infected with a canker.
Canker (v.) Infect with a canker.
Canker, () A gangrene or mortification which gradually spreads over the whole body (2 Tim. 2:17). In James 5:3 "cankered" means "rusted" (R.V.) or tarnished.
Canker-bit (a.) Eaten out by canker, or as by canker. [Obs.]
Canker bloom () The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
Canker blossom () That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [Obs.]
O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! -- Shak.
Cankered (a.) Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.
Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." -- Shak.
Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
Canker fly () A fly that preys on fruit.
Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." -- Thomson.
Misdeem it not a cankerous change. -- Wordsworth.
Cankerous (a.) Having an ulcer or canker [syn: cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous].
Compare: Rash
Rash (n.) (Med.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
Canker rash. See in the Vocabulary.
Nettle rash. See Urticaria.
Rose rash. See Roseola.
Tooth rash. See Red-gum.
Canker rash () (Med.) A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
Cankerworm (n.) 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 larvae are also called cankerworms.
Cankery (a.) Like a canker; full of canker.
Cankery (a.) Surly; sore; malignant.
Canna (n.) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.
Canna (n.) A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States.
Cannabene (n.) A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties.
Cannabin (n.) A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.
Cannabine (a.) Pertaining to hemp; hempen.
Cannabis (n.) A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.
Cannel coal (n.) 觸煤 A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles.
Cannery (n.) A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on. [U. S.]
Cannery (n.) A factory where food is canned.
Cannibal (n.) 食人者，吃同類的動物 A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind. -- Darwin.
Cannibal (a.) 食同類的，吃人肉的 Relating to cannibals or cannibalism. "Cannibal terror." -- Burke.
Cannibal (n.) A person who eats human flesh [syn: {cannibal}, {man- eater}, {anthropophagus}, {anthropophagite}].
Cannibal (n.) A gastronome of the old school who preserves the simple tastes and adheres to the natural diet of the pre-pork period.
Cannibalism (n.) The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. -- Berke.
Cannibalism (n.) The practice of eating the flesh of your own kind.
Cannibally (adv.) In the manner of cannibal. "An he had been cannibally given." -- Shak.
Cannikin (n.) A small can or drinking vessel.
Cannikin (n.) A wooden bucket.
Cannikin (n.) A small can.
Cannily (adv.) In a canny manner. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]
Cannily (adv.) With foresight; "more presciently than they superiors, these workers grasped the economic situation" [syn: presciently, cannily].
Canniness (n.) Caution; crafty management. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]
Cannons (n. pl. ) of Cannon.
Cannon (n. pl. ) of Cannon.
Cannon (n.) 大炮，加農炮 A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
Note: Cannons are made of various materials, as iron, brass, bronze, and steel, and of various sizes and shapes with respect to the special service for which they are intended, as intended, as siege, seacoast, naval, field, or mountain, guns. They always aproach more or less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle. Formerly they were cast hollow, afterwards they were cast, solid, and bored out. The cannon now most in use for the armament of war vessels and for seacoast defense consists of a forged steel tube reinforced with massive steel rings shrunk upon it. Howitzers and mortars are sometimes called cannon. See Gun.
Cannon (n.) (Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
Cannon (n.) (Printing.) A kind of type. See Canon.
Cannon ball, strictly, A round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells.
Cannon bullet, A cannon ball. [Obs.]
Cannon cracker, A fire cracker of large size.
Cannon lock, A device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer.
Cannon metal. See Gun Metal.
Cannon pinion, The pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting.
Cannon proof, Impenetrable by cannon balls.
Cannon shot. (a) A cannon ball.
Cannon shot. (b) The range of a cannon.
Cannon (v. i.) To discharge cannon.
Cannon (v. i.) To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound.
He heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it -- crack, splinter, and fall like a mast. -- Kipling.
Cannon (n. & v.) (Billiards) 炮轟 See Carom. [Eng.]
Carom (n.) [Prob. corrupted fr. F. carumboler to carom, carambolage a carom, carambole the red ball in billiards.] (Billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.
Cannon (n.) A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels.
Cannon (n.) Heavy gun fired from a tank.
Cannon (n.) (Middle Ages) A cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm.
Cannon (n.) Heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane.
Cannon (n.) Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals [syn: cannon, shank].
Cannon (n.) A shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other [syn: carom, cannon].
Cannon (v.) Make a cannon.
Cannon (v.) Fire a cannon.
Cannon, (n.) An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
Cannon -- U.S. County in Tennessee
Population (2000): 12826
Housing Units (2000): 5420
Land area (2000): 265.643433 sq. miles (688.013305 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.063764 sq. miles (0.165149 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 265.707197 sq. miles (688.178454 sq. km)
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.811388 N, 86.064304 W
Headwords:
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Cannon, TN
Cannon County
Cannon County, TN
Cannonade (n.) The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
Cannonade (n.) Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
Cannonade (imp. & p. p.) of Cannonade.
Cannonading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cannonade.
Cannonade (v. t.) To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.
Cannonade (v. i.) To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.
Cannonball (n.) 炮彈 A solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon [syn: {cannonball}, {cannon ball}, {round shot}].
Cannon bone () See Canon Bone.
Cannoned (a.) Furnished with cannon.
Cannoneer (n.) Alt. of Cannonier.
Cannonier (n.) A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
Cannonering (n.) The use of cannon.
Cannonry (n.) Cannon, collectively; artillery.
Cannot () Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.
Cannula (n.) 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.
Cannular (a.) Having the form of a tube; tubular.
Cannulated (a.) Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle.
Canny (a.) Alt. of Cannei.
Cannei (a.) Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary.
Cannei (a.) Skillful; knowing; capable.
Cannei (a.) Cautious; prudent; safe.
Cannei (a.) Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle.
Cannei (a.) Reputed to have magical powers.
Canoes (n. pl. ) of Canoe.
Canoe (n.) 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.
Canoe (n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.
Canoe (n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.
Canoed (imp. & p. p.) of Canoe.
Canoeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canoe.
Canoe (v. i.) To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.
Canoeing (n.) The act or art of using a canoe.
Canoeist (n.) A canoeman.
Canoemen (n. pl. ) of Canoeman.
Canoeman (n.) One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe.
Cañon (n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.] [Also spelled canyon.]
Canon (n.) A law or rule.
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. -- Shak.
Canon (n.) (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. -- Hook.
Canon (n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
Canon (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
Canon (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Canon (n.) (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
Canon (n.) (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
Canon (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
Note: [See Illust. of Bell.] -- Knight.
Canon (n.) (Billiards) See Carom.
Apostolical canons. See under Apostolical.
Augustinian canons, Black canons. See under Augustinian.
Canon capitular, Canon residentiary, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year).
Canon law. See under Law.
Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), That part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes.
Honorary canon, A canon [6] who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours.
Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), One who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend.
Regular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and followed the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon.
Secular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours.
Canon (n.) A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society".
Canon (n.) A priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
Canon (n.) A ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall [syn: canyon, canon].
Canon (n.) A contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts.
Canon (n.) A complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
Canon (n.) A collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired.
Canon, () This word is derived from a Hebrew and Greek word denoting a reed or cane. Hence it means something straight, or something to keep straight; and hence also a rule, or something ruled or measured. It came to be applied to the Scriptures, to denote that they contained the authoritative rule of faith and practice, the standard of doctrine and duty. A book is said to be of canonical authority when it has a right to take a place with the other books which contain a revelation of the Divine will. Such a right does not arise from any ecclesiastical authority, but from the evidence of the inspired authorship of the book. The canonical (i.e., the inspired) books of the Old and New Testaments, are a complete rule, and the only rule, of faith and practice. They contain the whole supernatural revelation of God to men. The New Testament Canon was formed gradually under divine guidance. The different books as they were written came into the possession of the Christian associations which began to be formed soon after the day of Pentecost; and thus slowly the canon increased till all the books were gathered together into one collection containing the whole of the twenty-seven New Testament inspired books. Historical evidence shows that from about the middle of the second century this New Testament collection was substantially such as we now possess. Each book contained in it is proved to have, on its own ground, a right to its place; and thus the whole is of divine authority.
Canon, () The Old Testament Canon is witnessed to by the New Testament writers. Their evidence is conclusive. The quotations in the New from the Old are very numerous, and the references are much more numerous. These quotations and references by our Lord and the apostles most clearly imply the existence at that time of a well-known and publicly acknowledged collection of Hebrew writings under the designation of "The Scriptures;" "The Law and the Prophets and the Psalms;" "Moses and the Prophets," etc. The appeals to these books, moreover, show that they were regarded as of divine authority, finally deciding all questions of which they treat; and that the whole collection so recognized consisted only of the thirty-nine books which we now posses. Thus they endorse as genuine and authentic the canon of the Jewish Scriptures. The Septuagint Version (q.v.) also contained every book we now have in the Old Testament Scriptures. As to the time at which the Old Testament canon was closed, there are many considerations which point to that of Ezra and Nehemiah, immediately after the return from Babylonian exile. (See BIBLE T0000580, EZRA, QUOTATIONS.)
Canon, () eccl. law. This word is taken from the Greek, and signifies a rule or law. In ecclesiastical law, it is also used to designate an order of religious persons. Francis Duaren says, the reason why the ecclesiastics called the rules they established canons or rules, (canones id est regulas) and not laws, was modesty. They did not dare to call them (leges) laws, lest they should seem to arrogate to themselves the authority of princes and magistrates. De Sacris Ecclesiae Ministeriis, p. 2, in pref. See Law, Canon.
Canon, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 755
Housing Units (2000): 361
Land area (2000): 3.179511 sq. miles (8.234896 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.179511 sq. miles (8.234896 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12932
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 34.345576 N, 83.108741 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30520
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Cañon (n.) (Sp.) = Canyon.
Canon bit () That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
Canon bone () The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Canonic (a.) Alt. of Cannonical.
Cannonical (a.) Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons.
Canonically (adv.) In a canonical manner; according to the canons.
Canonicalness (n.) The quality of being canonical; canonicity.
Canonicals (n. pl.) The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.
Canonicate (n.) The office of a canon; a canonry.
Canonicity (n.) The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
Canonist (n.) A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
Canonistic (a.) Of or pertaining to a canonist.
Canonization (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
Canonization (n.) The state of being canonized or sainted.
Canonized (imp. & p. p.) of Canonize.
Canonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canonize.
Canonize (v. t.) 封…死者為聖徒，使加入聖徒之列，褒揚 To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
Canonize (v. t.) To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.
Canonize (v. t.) To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.
Canonize (v.) Declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized" [syn: {canonize}, {canonise}, {saint}].
Canonize (v.) Treat as a sacred person; "He canonizes women" [syn: {canonize}, {canonise}].
Canonry (n. pl.) 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.
Canonship (a.) Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming.
Canoodle (v.) To hug and kiss another person in a sexual way.
Canoodle (v.i.) canoodled, canoodling. pet, fondle <lovers canoodling in the park>.