Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 13
Canopus (n.) (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.
Canopus (n.) Supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky.
Canopes (imp. & p. p.) of Canopy.
Canopying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canopy.
Canopy (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a canopy. "A bank with ivy canopied." -- Milton.
Canopies (n. pl. ) of Canopy.
Canopy (n.) A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. "Golden canopies and beds of state." -- Dryden.
Canopy (n.) (Arch.) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.
Canopy (n.) (Arch.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.
Canopy (n.) The transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit.
Canopy (n.) The umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air.
Canopy (n.) A covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather.
Canopy (v.) Cover with a canopy.
Canorous (a.) Melodious; musical. "Birds that are most canorous." -- Sir T. Browne.
A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter. -- De Quincey.
Canorous (a.) Richly melodious [syn: canorous, songful].
Canorousness (n.) The quality of being musical.
He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. -- Lowell.
Canstick (n.) Candlestick. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Cant (a.) Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
To introduce and multiply cant words in the most ruinous corruption in any language. -- Swift.
Cant (v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
Cant (v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
The rankest rogue that ever canted. -- Beau. & Fl.
Cant (v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
The doctor here, When he discourseth of dissection, Of vena cava and of vena porta, The meser[ae]um and the mesentericum, What does he else but cant. -- B. Jonson
That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language, if I may so call it. -- Bp. Sanderson.
Canted (imp. & p. p.) of Cant.
Canting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cant.
Cant (v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
Cant (v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
Cant (v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
Cant (n.) A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.]
The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant. -- B. Jonson.
Cant (n.) An outer or external angle.
Cant (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl. -- Totten.
Cant (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.
Cant (n.) (Coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. -- Knight.
Cant (n.) (Mech.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel. -- Knight.
Cant (n.) (Naut.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), Timber at the two ends of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
Cant (n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
Cant (n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. -- Goldsmith.
The cant of any profession. -- Dryden.
Cant (n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
They shall hear no cant from me. -- F. W. Robertson
Cant (n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
Cant (n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell their leases by cant." -- Swift.
Cant (v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction. [Archaic] -- Swift.
Can't () A colloquial contraction for can not.
Cant (n.) Stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition [syn: buzzword, cant].
Cant (n.) A slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force [syn: bank, cant, camber].
Cant (n.) A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular].
Cant (n.) Insincere talk about religion or morals [syn: cant, pious platitude].
Cant (n.) Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees [syn: bevel, cant, chamfer].
Cant (v.) Heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting" [syn: cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch].
Cantab (n.) [Abbreviated from Cantabrigian.] A Cantabrigian. [Colloq.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Cantabile (a.) [It., cantare to sing.] (Mus.) In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.
Cantabile (n.) (Mus.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.
Cantabile (a.) Smooth and flowing [syn: cantabile, singing].
Cantabrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.
Cantabrigian (n.) A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.
Cantabrigian (n.) A resident of Cambridge.
Cantalever (n.) (Arch.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.
Cantalever (n.) (Engin.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs.
Cantalever bridge, A bridge in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, to complete the connection.
Cantaloupe (n.) A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color. [Written also cantaleup.]
Cantaloupe (n.) A variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh [syn: cantaloupe, cantaloup, cantaloupe vine, cantaloup vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis].
Cantaloupe (n.) The fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh [syn: cantaloup, cantaloupe].
Cantankerous (a.) Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.
Cantar (n.) Alt. of Cantarro.
Cantarro (n.) A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds.
Cantarro (n.) A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons. -- Simmonds.
Cantata (n.) (Mus.) 清唱劇，聖歌謠曲，大合唱 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.
Cantata (n.) A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text [syn: {cantata}, {oratorio}].
Cantation (n.) A singing. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Cantatory (a.) Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing. [R.]
Cantatrice (n.) (Mus.) A female professional singer.
Canted (a.) Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window.
Canted column (Arch.), A column polygonal in plan.
Canted (a.) Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.
Canted (a.) Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted" [syn: atilt, canted, leaning, tilted, tipped].
Canteen (n.) (Mil.) A small vessel used by soldiers or hikers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. [Written also cantine.]
Note: In 1910 in the English service the canteen is made of wood and holds three pints; in the United States it is usually a tin flask.
Canteen (n.) A chest containing culinary and other vessels for military officers in a garrison.
Canteen (n.) The sutler's shop in a garrison.
Cantel (n.) See Cantle.
Canter (n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
Note: The canter is a thoroughly artificial pace, at first extremely tiring to the horse, and generally only to be produced in him by the restraint of a powerful bit, which compels him to throw a great part of his weight on his haunches . . . There is so great a variety in the mode adopted by different horses for performing the canter, that no single description will suffice, nor indeed is it easy . . . to define any one of them. -- J. H. Walsh.
Canter (n.) A rapid or easy passing over.
A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics. -- Sir J. Stephen.
Cantered (imp. & p. p.) of Canter.
Cantering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canter.
Canter (v. i.) To move in a canter.
Canter (v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
Canter (n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar.
Canter (n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
The day when he was a canter and a rebel. -- Macaulay.
Canter (n.) A smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop [syn: canter, lope].
Canter (v.) Ride at a canter; "The men cantered away."
Canter (v.) Go at a canter, of horses.
Canter (v.) Ride at a cantering pace; "He cantered the horse across the meadow."
Canterbury (n.) 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 a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.
Canterbury (n.) A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc.
Canterbury ball (Bot.), A species of Campanula of several varieties, cultivated for its handsome bell-shaped flowers.
Canterbury gallop, A gentle gallop such as was used by pilgrims riding to Canterbury; a canter.
Canterbury tale, One of the tales which Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers to pass away the time.
Canterbury (n.) A town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church.
Cantharidal (a.) Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.
Cantharides (n. pl.) See Cantharis.
Compare: Cantharis
Cantharis (n.; pl. Cantharides) (Zool.) 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.
Cantharidin (n.) (Chem.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.
Compare: Blister
Blister (n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. -- Grainger.
Blister (n.) Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.
Blister (n.) A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. -- Dunglison.
Blister beetle, A beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta vesicatoria (or Cantharis vesicatoria), called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis.
Blister fly, A blister beetle.
Blister plaster, A plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies.
Blister steel, Crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel.
Blood blister. See under Blood.
Cantharides (n. pl. ) of Cantharis.
Cantharis (n.; pl. Cantharides) (Zool.) 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.
Cant hook () A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. [U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Cant hook (n.) A peavey having a hook instead of a spike; used for handling logs.
Canthoplasty (n.) (Surg.) The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.
Canthi (n. pl. ) of Canthus.
Canthus (n.) (Anat.) The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.
Canthus (n.) Either of the corners of the eye where the upper and lower eyelids meet.
Canticles (n. pl. ) of Canticle.
Canticle (n.) A song; esp. a little song or hymn. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Canticle (n.) pl. The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.
Canticle (n.) A canto or division of a poem. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Canticle (n.) A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.
Canticle (n.) A hymn derived from the Bible.
Canticoy (n.) [Of American Indian origin.] A social gathering; usually, one for dancing.
Cantile (v. i.) Same as Cantle, v. t.
Compare: Cantle
Cantle (v. t.) To cut in pieces; to cut out from. [Obs.] [Written also cantile.]
Compare: Cantabile
Cantabile (n.) (Mus.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.
Cantilena (n.) [It. & L.] (Mus.) See Cantabile.
Compare: Cantalever
Cantalever (n.) [Written also cantaliver and cantilever.] (Arch.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.
Cantalever (n.) (Engin.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs.
Cantalever bridge, A bridge in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, to complete the connection.
Cantilever (n.) Same as Cantalever.
Cantilever (n.) Projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only.
Cantilever (v.) Project as a cantilever.
Cantilever (v.) Construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed; "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings."
Cantillate (v. i.) To chant; to recite with musical tones. -- M. Stuart.
Cantillate (v.) Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant, intone, intonate, cantillate].
Cantillation (n.) A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.
Cantillation (n.) Liturgical chanting.
Compare: Canteen
Canteen (n.) (Mil.) A small vessel used by soldiers or hikers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. [Written also cantine.]
Note: In 1910 in the English service the canteen is made of wood and holds three pints; in the United States it is usually a tin flask.
Canteen (n.) (Mil.) A chest containing culinary and other vessels for military officers in a garrison.
Canteen (n.) (Mil.) The sutler's shop in a garrison.
Canteen (n.) (Mil.) Hence: A store or small shop within a larger establishment where refreshments and sometimes other supplies are sold.
At a military base the canteen may be as large as a general store; within a school or small company it may be only a small counter with very limited supplies, or a snack bar.
Canteen (n.) (Mil.) A temporary location where food is dispensed during an emergency.
Cantine (n.) See Canteen.
Canting (n.) The use of cant; hypocrisy.
Canting (a.) Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. -- Cant"ing*ly, adv. -- Cant"ing*ness, n.
Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), Bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer.
Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.
Cantiniere (n.) (Mil) A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandiere.
Cantion (n.) [L. cantio, from canere to sing.] A song or verses. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Cantle (n.) A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part. "In one cantle of his law." -- Milton.
Cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out. -- Shak.
Cantle (n.) The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel. [Written also cante.]
Cantle (v. t.) To cut in pieces; to cut out from. [Obs.] [Written also cantile.]
Cantle (n.) The back of a saddle seat.
Cantlet (n.) [Dim. of cantle.] A piece; a fragment; a corner. -- Dryden.
Cantos (n. pl. ) of Canto.
Canto (n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
Canto (n.) (Mus.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.
Canto fermo [It.] (Mus.), The plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song.
Canto (n.) The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music.
Canto (n.) A major division of a long poem.
Canton (n.) A song or canto. [Obs.]
Write loyal cantons of contemned love. -- Shak.
Canton (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.
That little canton of land called the "English pale" -- Davies.
There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented. -- Bp. Burnet.
Canton (n.) A small community or clan.