Part 1591

<blockquote>Stir the fire with your master's <b>cane</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A lance or dart made of cane.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted <b>cane</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A local European measure of length. See <er>Canna</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Cane borer</col> <fld>(Zo\'94.)</fld>, <cd>A beetle <spn>(Oberea bimaculata)</spn> which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc.</cd> -- <col>Cane mill</col>, <cd>a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar.</cd> -- <col>Cane trash</col>, <cd>the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cane</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Cane</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Caned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Caning</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To beat with a cane.</def>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make or furnish with cane or rattan; <as>as, to <ex>cane</ex> chairs</as>.</def>

<h1>Canebrake</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Cane"brake</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A thicket of canes.</def>

<i>Ellicott.</i>

<h1>Caned</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Caned</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>canus</ets> white.]</ety> <def>Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Canella</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Ca*nel"la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. (OE. <ets>canel</ets>, <ets>canelle</ets>, cinnamon, fr. F. <ets>cannelle</ets>), Dim. of L. <ets>canna</ets> a reed. <ets>Canella</ets> is so called from the shape of the rolls of prepared bark. See <er>Cane</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of trees of the order <i>Canellace\'91</i>, growing in the West Indies.</def>

<note>&hand; The principal species is <i>Canella alba</i>, and its bark is a spice and drug exported under the names of <i>wild cinnamon</i> and <i>whitewood bark</i>.</note>

<h1>Canescent</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Ca*nes"cent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>canescens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>canescere</ets>, v. inchoative of <ets>canere</ets> to be white.]</ety> <def>Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.</def>

<h1>Can hook</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can" hook`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.</def>

<h1>Cannicula</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can*nic"u*la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>canicula</ets>, lit., a little dog, a dim of <ets>canis</ets> dog; cf. F. <ets>canicule</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>The Dog Star; Sirius.</def>

<h1>Canicular</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Ca*nic"u*lar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>canicularis</ets>; cf. F. <ets>caniculaire</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.</def>

<cs><col>Canicular days</col>, <cd>the dog days, See <er>Dog days</er>.</cd> -- <col>Canicular year</col>, <cd>the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.</cd></cs>

<h1>Canicule</h1> <Xpage=210>