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Canary bird

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.

Canaster (n.)

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.

Cancan (n.)

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

Cancel (v. i.)

An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

Cancel (v. i.)

The part thus suppressed.

Cancel (v. i.)

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

Cancel (v. i.)

To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

Cancel (v. i.)

To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

Cancel (v. i.)

To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

Cancel (v. i.)

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

Cancel (v. i.)

The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

Canceled (imp. & p. p.)

of Cancel

Canceleer (n.)

The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.

Cancelier (n.)

Alt. of Canceleer

Cancelier (v. i.)

To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.

Canceling (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Cancel

Cancellarean (a.)

Cancellarean.

Cancellate (v. t.)

Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.

Cancellate (v. t.)

Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.

Cancellated (a.)

Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.