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<p><b>4.</b> <def>To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.</def>

<blockquote>The indentures were <b>canceled</b>. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He was unwilling to <b>cancel</b> the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.</def>

<cs><col>Canceled figures</col> <fld>(Print)</fld>, <cd>figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See <er>Abolish</er>.</syn>

<h1>Cancel</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"cel</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Cancel</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>, and cf. <er>Chancel</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the <b>cancels</b> of the body. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Print)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The part thus suppressed.</def>

<h1>Cancelier</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can`cel*ier"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>chanceler</ets>, OF. <ets>canseler</ets>, to waver, orig. to cross the legs so as not to fall; from the same word as E. <ets>cancel</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Falconry)</fld> <def>To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Nares.</i>

<blockquote>He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To <b>cancelier</b>. <i>Massinger.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cancelier, Canceleer</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw><hw>Can`cel*ier"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Can"cel*eer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Falconry)</fld> <def>The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry <b>canceliers</b> are they the fowl can reach. <i>Drayton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cancellarean</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can`cel*la"re*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Cancellarean.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Cancellate</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"cel*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cancellatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>cancellare</ets>, See <er>Cancel</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.</def>

<h1>Cancellated</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"cel*la`ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Crossbarres; marked with cross lines.</def>

<i>Grew.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Open or spongy, as some porous bones.</def>

<h1>Cancellation</h1> <Xpage=209>