Helen Fenton

Canceleer: Definition and part of speech

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Canceleer

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

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.

Cancellate: Definition and part of speech

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Cancellate

  1. v. t. Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.
  2. v. t. Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.

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.

Cancellation: Definition and part of speech

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Cancellation

  1. n. The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
  2. n. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

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.

Cancelli: Definition and part of speech

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Cancelli

  1. v. t. The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.
  2. v. t. An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.

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.

Cancellous: Definition and part of speech

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Cancellous

  1. a. Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

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.

Cancer: Definition and part of speech

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Cancer

  1. n. Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.
  2. n. A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.
  3. n. The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun’s course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.
  4. n. A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.

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.