CANNABINE
CANNABINE, adjective Pertaining to hemp; hempen.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CANNEL-COAL
CANNEL-COAL or CANDLE-COAL, noun A hard, opake, inflammable fossil coal of a black color, sufficiently solid to be cut and polished. On fire it decrepitates and breaks into angu...
CANNEQUIN
CANNEQUIN, noun White cotton cloth from the East Indies, suitable for the Guinea trade.
CANNIBAL
CANNIBAL, noun A human being that east human flesh; a man-eater, or anthropophagite.
CANNIBALISM
CANNIBALISM, noun1. The act or practice of eating human flesh, by mankind.2. Murderous cruelty; barbarity.
CANNIBALLY
CANNIBALLY, adverb In the manner of a cannibal.
CANNON
CANNON, noun A large military engine for throwing balls, and other instruments of death, by the force of gun powder. Guns of this kind are made of iron or brass and of different...
CANNON-BALL
CANNON-BALL, noun A ball, usually made of cast iron, to be thrown from cannon. Cannon bullet, of the like signification, is not now used. Cannon balls were originally of stone.
CANNON-PROOF
CANNON-PROOF, adjective Proof against cannon shot.
CANNON-SHOT
CANNON-SHOT, noun A ball for cannon; also, the range or distance a cannon will throw a ball.
CANNONADE
CANNONADE, noun The act of discharging cannon and throwing balls, for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship or fort. The term usually implies an attack of...
CANNONEER
CANNONEER,CANINE, noun A man who manages cannon; an engineer.
CANNOT
CANNOT, [can and not.] These words are usually united, but perhaps without good reason; canst and not are never united.
CANNULAR
CANNULAR, adjective Tubular; having the form of a tube.
CANOE
CANOE, noun1. A boat used by rude nations, formed of the body or trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting or burning, into a suitable shape. Similar boats are now used by civilize...
CANON
CANON, noun1. In ecclesiastical affairs, a law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the sovereign; a decision of matters in religion, or a r...
CANON-BIT
CANON-BIT, noun That part of a bit let into a horses mouth.
CANONESS
CANONESS, noun A woman who enjoys a prebend, affixed, by the foundation, to maids, without obliging them to make any vows or renounce the world.
CANONICAL
CANONICAL, adjective Pertaining to a canon; according to the canon or rule.CANONICAL books or canonical scriptures, are those books of the scriptures which are admitted by the c...
CANONICALLY
CANONICALLY, adverb In a manner agreeable to the canon.
CANONICALNESS
CANONICALNESS, noun The quality of being canonical.
CANONICALS
CANONICALS, nounplural The full dress of the clergy, worn when they officiate.
CANONICATE
CANONICATE, noun The office of a canon.
CANONIST
CANONIST, noun A professor of cannon law; one skilled in the study and practice of ecclesiastical law.
CANONISTIC
CANONISTIC, adjective Having the knowledge of a canonist.
CANONIZATION
CANONIZATION, noun [See Canonize.]1. The act of declaring a man a saint, or rather the act of ranking a deceased person in the catalogue of saints, called a canon. This act is p...
CANONIZE
CANONIZE, verb transitive [from canon.] To declare a man a saint and rank him in the catalogue, called a canon.