Part 1582

<blockquote>I <b>can</b> no Latin, quod she. <i>Piers Plowman.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music <b>can</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be able to do; to have power or influence.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The will of Him who all things <b>can</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>For what, alas, <b>can</b> these my single arms? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>M\'91c\'91nas and Agrippa, who <b>can</b> most with C\'91sar. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without <i>to</i>; <as>as, I <ex>can</ex> go, but do not wish to</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Can but</er>, <er>Can not but</er>. It is an error to use the former of these phrases where the sens requires the latter. If we say, "I <i>can but</i> perish if I go," "But" means <i>only</i>, and denotes that this is all or the worst that can happen. When the apostle Peter said. "We <i>can not but</i> 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 <i>can not</i> help it." Thus we say. "I <i>can not but</i> hope," "I <i>can not but</i> believe," "I <i>can not but</i> think," "I <i>can not but</i> remark," etc., in cases in which it would be an error to use the phrase <i>can but</i>.</syn>

<blockquote>Yet he <b>could not but</b> acknowledge to himself that there was something calculated to impress awe, . . . in the sudden appearances and vanishings . . . of the masque <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

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

<h1>Canaanite</h1> <Xpage=208\'3e>

<hw>Ca"naan*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A Native or inbabitant 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.</def>

<h1>Canaanite</h1> <Xpage=208\'3e>

<hw>Ca"naan*ite</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From an Aramaic word signifying "zeal."]</ety> <def>A zealot.</def> "Simon the <i>Canaanite</i>."

<i>Matt. x. 4.</i>

<note>&hand; This was the "Simon called Zelotes" (<i>Luke vi. 15</i>), <it>i.e.</it>, Simon the zealot.</note>

<i>Kitto.</i>

<h1>Canaanitish</h1> <Xpage=208\'3e>

<hw>Ca"naan*i`tish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.</def>

<h1>Ca\'a4ada</h1> <Xpage=208\'3e>

<hw>Ca*\'a4a"da</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp.]</ety> <def>A small ca\'a4on; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.</def> <mark>[Local, Western U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Canada</h1> <Xpage=208\'3e>

<hw>Can"a*da</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.</def>

<cs><col>Canada balsam</col>. <cd>See under <er>Balsam</er>.</cd> -- <col>Canada goose</col>. <cd><fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> See <er>Whisky Jack</er>.</cd> -- <col>Canada lynx</col>. <cd><fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> See <er>Lynx</er>.</cd> -- <col>Canada porcupine</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Porcupine</er>, and <er>Urson</er>.</cd> -- <col>Canada rice</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Rick</er>.</cd> -- <col>Canada robin</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the cedar bird.</cd></cs>

<h1>Canadian</h1> <Xpage=208\'3e>

<hw>Ca*na"di*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Canada.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A native or inhabitant of Canada.</def></def2>

<cs><col>Canadian period</col> <fld>(Geol.)</fld>, <cd>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 <er>Geology</er>.</cd></cs>