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a. [ L. arcanus. ] Hidden; secret. [ Obs. ] “The arcane part of divine wisdom.” Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. boucanier, fr. boucaner to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin. ] A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [ Written also bucanier. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Haiti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a buccaneer; piratical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anal.) Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pos>n.; pl. E. -neums, L. -nea. [ L. the heel, fr. calx, calcis, the heel. ] (Anal.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna, fr. Gr. ka`nna, ka`nnh; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. qāneh reed. Cf. Canister, canon, 1st Cannon. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) (a) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. (b) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. (c) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the Southern United States great cane is the Arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is. Arundinaria tecta. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one of the species of cane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stir the fire with your master's cane. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A lance or dart made of cane. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign
The flying skirmish of the darted cane. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A local European measure of length. See Canna. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cane borer (Zool.), A beetle (Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc. --
Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. --
Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Caned p. pr. & vb. n. Caning. ] 1. To beat with a cane. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thicket of canes. Ellicott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) inhabiting southeastern U.S. swamps and lowlands; -- called also swamp rabbit.
Syn. -- swamp rabbit, swamp hare. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. L. canus white. ] Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL. (OE. canel, canelle, cinnamon, fr. F. cannelle), Dim. of L. canna a reed. Canella is so called from the shape of the rolls of prepared bark. See Cane. ] (Bot.) A genus of trees of the order Canellaceæ, growing in the West Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The principal species is Canella alba, and its bark is a spice and drug exported under the names of wild cinnamon and whitewood bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large evergreen shrub or small tree (Canella alba or Canella winterana) having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes. Its bark is called wild cinnamon.
Syn. -- wild cinnamon, white cinnamon tree, Canella winterana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a natural family having one genus: aromatic tropical trees of East Africa and Florida to West Indies. In 1913 the family was classed as an order: see canella.
Syn. -- family Canellaceae, canella family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. canescens, p. pr. of canescere, v. inchoative of canere to be white. ] Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. fr. F. carcan the iron collar or chain of a criminal, a chain of precious stones, LL. carcannum, fr. Armor. kerchen bosom, neck, kelchen collar, fr. kelch circle; or Icel. kverk troat, OHG. querca throat. ] A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [ Also written carkanet and carcant. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., prob. earlier meaning a dispute, orig. in the game of mall (F. mail), fr. LGr. &unr_; the game of mall, fr Pers chaugān club or bat; or possibly ultimated fr. L. ciccus a trible. ] 1. The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cut short this chicane, I propound it fairly to your own conscience. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Card playing) In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ Cf. F. chicaner. See Chicane, n. ] To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. chicaneur. ] One who uses chicanery. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chicanerie. ] Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

Syn. -- Trickery; sophistry; stratagem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Deca-. ] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; twelve. ] (Chem.) Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; eleven. ] (Chem.) One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum. [ Written also hendecane. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; six + &unr_; ten. ] (Chem.) A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "e`ndeka eleven.] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane. [1913 Webster]

n. (Chem.) See Hecdecane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. hurracan; orig. a Carib word signifying, a high wind. ] A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each guilty thought to me is
A dreadful hurricane. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hurricane bird (Zool.), the frigate bird. --
Hurricane deck. (Naut.) See under Deck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incanescens, p. pr. incanescere to become gray. ] Becoming hoary or gray; canescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.), A walking cane made from the stem of a species of palm of the genus Calamus (Calamus Scipionum), and of a brown color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. nonus ninth + decem ten. ] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A species of hickory. See Pecan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Penta- + Gr. de`ka ten. ] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, (C15H32) found in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. supervacaneus, supervacuus; super over + vacuus empty. ] Serving no purpose; superfluous; needless. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Tetra- + Gr. &unr_; ten. ] (Chem.) A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small toucan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. tri- + Gr. &unr_; ten. So called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule. ] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C13H28, of the methane series, which is a probable ingredient both of crude petroleum and of kerosene, and is produced artificially as a light colorless liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. undecim eleven. ] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the methane series, found in petroleum; -- so called from its containing eleven carbon atoms in the molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]