| Canoe | 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 ] |
| canon | 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 ]
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