n. 1. any artifact (such a books or furniture or art) that is distinctive to America. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Barbicanage. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ LL. barbicanagium. See Barbican. ] Money paid for the support of a barbican. [ Obs. ] Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an ancient country is southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.
Syn. -- Palestine, Holy Land. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A Native or inhabitant 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From an Aramaic word signifying “zeal.” ] A zealot. “Simon the Canaanite.” Matt. x. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This was the “Simon called Zelotes” (Luke vi. 15), i.e., Simon the zealot. Kitto. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of birds including the spruce grouse Canachites canadensis.
Syn. -- genus Canachites. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] 1. A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [ Local, Western U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dry riverbed. [ PJC ]

n. A country in North America, bordering the United States on the north. It is a federation which includes English-speaking provinces and the French-speaking Province of Quebec. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Canada balsam. See under Balsam. --
Canada goose. (Zool.) See Wild goose. --
Canada jay. See Whisky Jack. --
Canada lynx. (Zool.) See Lynx. --
Canada lily. (Bot.) a plant of eastern North America (Lilium canadense) having yellow or orange flowers with dark spots; called also meadow lily. RHUD --
Canada porcupine (Zool.) See Porcupine, and Urson. --
Canada rice (Bot.) See under Rick. --
Canada robin (Zool.), the cedar bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Canada. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Canada. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canadian period (Geol.), 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 Geology. --
Canadian goose, an erroneous variant of Canada goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree (Cassia fistula) having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; it grows in tropical Asia, Central and South America, and Australia.
Syn. -- golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia, pudding pipe tree, canafistola. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. canaille (cf. It. canaglia), prop. and orig. a pack of dogs, fr. L. Canis dog. ] 1. The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Shorts or inferior flour. [ Canadian ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of can. ] A little can or cup. “And let me the canakin clink.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. canal, from L. canalis canal, channel; prob. from a root signifying “to cut”; cf. D. kanaal, fr. the French. Cf. Channel, Kennel gutter. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; -- used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal. [ Alaska ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. --
Canal lock. See Lock. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Cannel coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. canaliculatus channeled, fr. canaliculus, dim. of canalis. See Canal. ] Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Canaliculi [ L. ] (Anat.) A minute canal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to provide with a canal, as of a city.
Syn. -- canal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to to direct the flow of; -- also used abstractly, as of money or information.
Syn. -- channel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F., orig. a couch with mosquito curtains. See Canopy. ] 1. A sofa or divan. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Cookery) an appetizer consisting of a thin slice or piece of bread toasted or fried in butter or oil, on which anchovies, mushrooms, caviar, cheese, or other savory foods, are served. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ A sofa having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F., properly, a duck. ] An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. Canarie, L. Canaria insula one of the Canary islands, said to be so called from its large dogs, fr. canis dog. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canary grass, a grass of the genus Phalaris (Phalaris Canariensis), producing the seed used as food for canary birds. --
Canary stone (Min.), a yellow species of carnelian, named from its resemblance in color to the plumage of the canary bird. --
Canary wood, the beautiful wood of the trees Persea Indica and Persea Canariensis, natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands. --
Canary vine. See Canary bird flower, under Canary bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Canaries 1. Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. “A cup of canary.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A canary bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A quick and lively dance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Make you dance canary
With sprightly fire and motion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canary bird flower (Bot.), a climbing plant (Tropæolum peregrinum) with canary-colored flowers of peculiar form; -- called also canary vine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a form of rummy using two decks and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to meld groups of seven of the same rank.
Syn. -- basket rummy, meld. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Sp. canasta, canastro, basket, fr. L. canistrum. See Canister. ] A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics.
Syn. -- genus Canavalia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An amino acid found in the jack bean. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. décanal. See Dean. ] Pertaining to a dean or deanery. [ 1913 Webster ]

His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. --
Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943), in which American forces invaded the island of Guadalcanal, then occupied by Japanese forces; the island was recaptured by American forces after heavy fighting.
Syn. -- battle of Guadalcanal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Sp. jacania. ] (Zool.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The most common South American species is Jacana spinosa. The East Indian or pheasant jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is remarkable for having four very long, curved, middle tail feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The speciaes name for the mammee tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. rus, ruris the country + decanus the chief of ten. See Dean. ] Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called from a whistling sound which it makes. ] (Zool.) The beluga, or white whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a subdean or subdeanery. [ 1913 Webster ]