Cantabrian: Definition and part of speech

Cantabrian

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.

n. A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs.
n. A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.

n. See Carom.
n. A law or rule.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
n. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
n. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
n. 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.
n. The largest size of type having a specific name; — so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
n. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; — called also ear and shank.

n. A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.

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.