n.; pl. Canoes [ Sp. canoa, fr. Caribbean canáoa. ] 1. A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages. [ 1913 Webster ]

A birch canoe, with paddles, rising, falling, on the water. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Canoed pos>p. pr. & vb. n. Canoeing ] To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or art of using a canoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A canoeman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Canoemen One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman. Parkman. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. kanw`n rule, rod, fr. ka`nh, ka`nnh, reed. See Cane, and cf. Canonical. ] 1. A law or rule. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 Canonical, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 Imitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank. [ See Illust. of Bell. ] Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Billiards) See Carom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apostolical canons. See under Apostolical. --
Augustinian canons,
Black canons. See under Augustinian. --
Canon capitular,
Canon residentiary, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). --
Canon law. See under Law. --
Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. --
Honorary canon, a canon{ 6 } who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. --
Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend. --
Regular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and followed the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon. --
Secular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule. ] That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule. See canon. ] (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 Horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Amer. Sp. dim. See cañon. ] [ Southwestern U. S. ] 1. A small cañon. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. LL. canonissa. ] A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Regular canoness, one bound by the vow of poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. --
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. [ 1913 Webster ]