cancel

n. [ See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print) (a) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Canceled or Cancelled p. pr. & vb. n. Canceling or Cancelling. ] [ L. cancellare to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr. canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. &unr_; latticed gate. Cf. Chancel. ] 1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [ Obs. ] “Canceled from heaven.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall. [ 1913 Webster ]

The indentures were canceled. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.

Syn. -- To blot out; obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See Abolish. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Falconry) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies,
Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. chanceler, OF. canseler, to waver, orig. to cross the legs so as not to fall; from the same word as E. cancel. ] (Falconry) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced
To cancelier. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cancellarean. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cancellatus, p. p. of cancellare, See Cancel, v. t. ] 1. (Bot.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Crossbarred; marked with cross lines. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation. ] 1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., a lattice. See Cancel, v. t. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities. [ 1913 Webster ]