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canoe (kȧn�), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Canoed (kȧn�d) p. pr. & vb. n. Canoeing (kȧn�ĭng).] To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.
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canoeing n. The act or art of using a canoe.
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canoeist (kȧn�ĭst), n. A canoeman.
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canoeman (kȧn�m�n), n.; pl. Canoemen (kȧn�m�n). One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe.
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Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman. Parkman.
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canon (kănŭn), n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. kanwn rule, rod, fr. kanh, kannh, reed. See , and cf. .] 1. A law or rule.
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Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. Shak.
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2. (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.
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Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hook.
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3. 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 , a.
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4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
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5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
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6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
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7. (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 .
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8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
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9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank. [See Illust. of .] Knight.
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10. (Billiards) See .
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Coloq. Apostolical canons . See under . -- Coloq. Augustinian canons , Coloq. Black canons . See under . -- Coloq. Canon capitular , Coloq. Canon residentiary , a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). -- Coloq. Canon law . See under . -- Coloq. Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. -- Coloq. Honorary canon , a canon{6} who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. -- Coloq. Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend. -- Coloq. Regular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and followed the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon. -- Coloq. Secular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours.
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Cañon (käny�n; anglicized kănyŭn), n. [Sp., a tube or hollow, fr. caña reed, fr. L. canna. See .] A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]
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Canon bit (?). [F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule.] That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
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Canon bone (?). [F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule. See .] (Anat.) 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 .
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cañoncito (?), n. [Amer. Sp. dim. See .] [Southwestern U. S.] 1. A small cañon.
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2. A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest.
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Canoness (?), n. [Cf. LL. canonissa.] A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
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Coloq. Regular canoness , one bound by the vow of poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. -- Coloq. Secular canoness , one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.
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{ canonic (kȧnŏnĭk), canonical (kȧnŏnĭk�l), } a. [L. canonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See .] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons. “The oath of canonical obedience.” Hallam.
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2. Appearing in a Biblical canon; as, a canonical book of the Christian New Testament.
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3. Accepted as authoritative; recognized.
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4. (Math.) In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate.
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5. (Linguistics) Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; as, a canonical syllable pattern. Opposite of nonstandard.
Syn. -- standard. [WordNet 1.5]

6. Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon.
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Coloq. Canonical books , or Coloq. Canonical Scriptures , those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. -- Coloq. Canonical epistles , an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under . -- Coloq. Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. -- Coloq. Canonical hours , certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. -- Coloq. Canonical letters , letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Coloq. Canonical life , the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. -- Coloq. Canonical obedience , submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. -- Coloq. Canonical punishments , such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. -- Coloq. Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.
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Canonically (?), adv. In a canonical manner; according to the canons.
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Canonicalness, n. The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet.
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Canonicals (?), n. pl. The dress prescribed by canon{2} to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.
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Coloq. Full canonicals , the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.

Canonicate (?), n. [LL. canonucatus canonical: cf. F. canonicat.] The office of a canon; a canonry.
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Canonicity (?), n. [Cf. F. canonicité.] The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
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Canonist, n. [Cf. F. canoniste.] A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.
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Canonistic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a canonist. “This canonistic exposition.” Milton.
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Canonization (?), n. [F. canonisation.]
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1. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.
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2. The state of being canonized or sainted.
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Canonize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canonized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Canonizing.] [F. canoniser or LL. canonizare, fr. L. canon.. See .] 1. (Eccl.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
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2. To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.
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Fame in time to come canonize us. Shak.
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2. To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.[R.]
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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.
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Canonship (?), a. Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming.
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canopic jar n. a jar used in ancient Egyptian tombs to contain the intestines of a person who was mummified for burial; -- also called canopic vase. [Also spelled Canopic jar.]
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canopied adj. covered with or as with a canopy; as, a canopied bed; streets canopied by stately trees.
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Canopus (?), n. [L. Canopus, fr. Gr. �, town of Egypt.] (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.
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Canopy (kăn�p�), n.; pl. Canopies (-pĭz). [OE. canapie, F. canapé sofa, OF. conopée, conopeu, conopieu, canopy, vail, pavilion (cf. It. canopè canopy, sofa), LL. conopeum a bed with mosquito curtains, fr. Gr. kwnwpei^on, fr. kwnwps gnat, kwnos cone + 'wps face. See , and .] 1. 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.
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2. (Arch.) (a) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc. (b) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.
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Canopy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canopes (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Canopying.] To cover with, or as with, a canopy. “A bank with ivy canopied.” Milton.
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Canorous (?), a. [L. canorus, from nor melody, fr. canere to sing.] Melodious; musical. “Birds that are most canorous.” Sir T. Browne.
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A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter. De Quincey.
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Canorousness, n. The quality of being musical.
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He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. Lowell.
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Canstick (?), n. Candlestick. [Obs.] Shak.
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Cant (?), n. [OF., edge, angle, prof. from L. canthus the iron ring round a carriage wheel, a wheel, Gr. � the corner of the eye, the felly of a wheel; cf. W. cant the stake or tire of a wheel. Cf. , , .] 1. A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.]
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The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant. B. Jonson.
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2. An outer or external angle.
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3. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl. Totten.
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4. 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.
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5. (Coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. Knight.
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6. (Mech.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel. Knight.
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7. (Naut.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
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Coloq. Cant frames , Coloq. Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
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Cant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canted; p. pr. & vb. n. Canting.] 1. To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
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2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
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3. To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
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Cant, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, F. chant, singing, in allusion to the singing or whining tine of voice used by beggars, fr. L. cantus. See .] 1. An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
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2. The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. Goldsmith.
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The cant of any profession. Dryden.
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3. The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
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They shall hear no cant from me. F. W. Robertson
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4. Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
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Cant (?), a. Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
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To introduce and multiply cant words in the most ruinous corruption in any language. Swift.
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Cant, v. i. 1. To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
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2. To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
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The rankest rogue that ever canted. Beau. & Fl.
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3. To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
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The doctor here,
When he discourseth of dissection,
Of vena cava and of vena porta,
The meseræum and the mesentericum,
What does he else but cant. B. Jonson
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That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language, if I may so call it. Bp. Sanderson.
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Cant, n. [Prob. from OF. cant, equiv. to L. quantum; cf. F. encan, fr. L. in quantum, i.e. “for how much?”] A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. “To sell their leases by cant.” Swift.
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Cant, v. t. to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction. [Archaic] Swift.
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Can't (?). A colloquial contraction for can not.
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Cantab (?), n. [Abbreviated from Cantabrigian.] A Cantabrigian. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.
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Cantabile (?), a. [It., cantare to sing.] (Mus.) In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.
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Cantabile, n. (Mus.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.
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Cantabrian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.
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Cantabrigian (?), n. A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.
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Cantalever (?), n. [Cant an external angle + lever a supporter of the roof timber of a house.] [Written also cantaliver and cantilever.] 1. (Arch.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.
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2. (Engin.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs.
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Coloq. 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.
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Cantaloupe (?), n. [F. cantaloup, It. cantalupo, so called from the caste of Cantalupo, in the Marca d'Ancona, in Italy, where they were first grown in Europe, from seed said to have been imported from Armenia.] A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color. [Written also cantaleup.]
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Cantankerous (?), a. Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] -- Cantankerously, adv. -- Cantankerousness, n.
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The cantankerous old maiden aunt. Thackeray.
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{ Cantar (?), Cantarro (?), } n. [It. cantaro (in sense 1), Sp. cantaro (in sense 2).]
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1. 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.
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2. A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons. Simmonds.
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Cantata (?), n. [It., fr. cantare to sing, fr. L. cantare intens of canere to sing.] (Mus.) 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.
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Cantation (?), n. [L. cantatio.] A singing. [Obs.] Blount.
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Cantatory (?), a. Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing. [R.]
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Cantatrice (kȧntȧtrēch�), n. [It.] (Mus.) A female professional singer.
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Canted (?), a. [From 2d .] 1. Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window.
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Coloq. Canted column (Arch.), a column polygonal in plan.
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2. Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.
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Canteen (kăntēn), n. [F. cantine bottle case, canteen (cf. Sp. & It. cantina cellar, bottle case), either contr. fr. It. canovettina, dim. of canova cellar, or, more likely, fr. OF. cant. corner, It. & Sp. canto. See 1st .] (Mil.) 1. A small vessel used by soldiers or hikers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. [Written also cantine.]
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☞ 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.
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2. A chest containing culinary and other vessels for military officers in a garrison.
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3. The sutler's shop in a garrison.
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4. 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.
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5. A temporary location where food is dispensed during an emergency.
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Cantel (kănt'l), n. See .
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Canter (kăntẽr), n. [An abbreviation of Canterbury. See Canterbury gallop, under .] 1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
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☞ 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.
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