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CAN CHER IZ'ATO, ) Musical terms, de- 



CANCHERIZAN'TE, J noting a retrogade 

 motion from the end to the beginning of 

 JL piece. The terms are Italian, fromcan- 

 thero, a crab, the motions of which are 

 reckoned backwards. 



CANCRO'MA, the boat-bill : a genus of bird 

 inhabiting the hot and marshy parts of 

 South America. Order Grallatorts, and 

 family Cultrirostres, Cuvier. It much re- 

 sembles the heron in habits and form, 

 except in the form of the bill. Name, 

 cancer, a crab, and roma, food, from its 

 being thought to live on crabs. 



CANDELA'BRA (Latin), the stand? on 

 which the ancients supported their lamps. 



CANDSLA'RIA. the herb mullein, from 

 candela, its stalk being supposed to re- 

 semble a candle. 



CANDIDA'TI, Lat. candidus, white. In 

 Roman antiquities, so called from their 

 being arrayed in white garments, were 

 the aspirants for public offices. 



CANDLE, from Lat. candcla. A long roll 

 made of tallow, wax, or spermaceti. 



CAXDLEBER'RY MYRTLE, a name common 

 to all the plants of the genus Myrtica. 



CAN'DLEBERRY TREE, the Myrtica ceri- 

 fera, or wax-bearing myrtle of N. America. 



CAN'DLE-BOMB, a small glass bubble con- 

 taining a drop of water and hermetically 

 sealed. It is placed in the wick of a can- 

 dle, which, being lighted, the water ex- 

 pands, and the bomb loudly explodes. It 

 is a dangerous plaything. 



CAN'DLE-COAL, \ A species of coal which 



CAN'NEL-COAL. j has obtained its name 

 from the bright flame, unmixed with 

 smoke, which it yields during combustion. 

 Candle being provincially pronounced 

 cannel. It is black, opaque, compact and 

 brittle, and breaks with a conchoidal 

 fracture. It does not soil the fingers, 

 and, like jet, is capable of a high polish, 

 and of being worked into trinkets and 

 ornaments. It appears indeed to differ 

 from jet only in containing foreign earthy 

 matters, which give it a greater specific 

 grayity. 



CANDLE-FIR, moss-fallen fir ; fir that has 

 been buried in moss for a length of 

 time, split up and used in some parts 

 instead of candles. 



CAN'DLEMAS (comp.of Candle and mass) ; 

 a Roman catholic festival, celebrated on 

 the 2nd of February, in honour of the 

 purification of the Virgin Mary, and so 

 called from the great number of lights 

 used on that occasion. On this day the 

 Catholics consecrate all the candles and 

 tapers which are to be used in their 

 churches during the whole year. In Home, 

 the pope performs the ceremony himself, 

 and distributes wax candles to the car- 

 dinals and others, who carry them in pro- 

 cession through the hall of the pope's 

 palace. The ceremony was prohibited 



in England by an order of council in IM 

 but it has given name to one of the fr" 

 terms for paying and receiving rents an/I 

 interest, and to a law term beginning 15th 

 Jan., and endins? 3rd Feb. Candlemas- 

 day is the 2nd Feb. 



CAN'DY, a preparation of sugar, made hv 

 crystallizing it several times to render it 

 hard and transparent. The name and art 

 was introduced into Europe by the Arabs. 



CANE, Lat. cimnn. 1. In botany, thl<5 

 term is applied to several plants belonging 

 to different genera, as Arundo, Calamus, 

 Saccharum, &c. Among them is the bambor 

 of the E. Indies, and the sugar-cane of Asia, 



Africa and America. 2. A measure ot 



length in several countries of Europe ; at 

 Naples = 7 292 ft : at Toulouse, in Upper 

 Langucdoc - 5708 ft. ; in Lower Langue- 

 doc = 6'458 ft., and the same at Montpel 



lier, and in Provence and Dauphiny. 



3. In Scotland, a duty formerly paid in 

 produce by a tenant to his*" landlord. 

 Skene derives the term, taken in this 

 sense, from Gaelic Cean, the head, and 

 supposes that the cane was originally a 

 capitation tax. 



CANE'-BRAKE. 1. A cane thicket. 2. 



A plant, the Arundinaria tnicrospenna of 

 N. America. 



CANE'-HOLE, a trench for planting the 

 cuttings of cane on sugar plantations. 



CANEL'LA, the generic name of a tree of 

 the W. Indies and S. America. Dodecai*- 

 dria Monoaynia. Name, dim. of canna, 

 because the bark is brought into thu 

 country in the form of reeds. This tree 

 affords the bark called Canella alba or false 

 Winter's bark , often confounded with th* 

 true Winter's bark, which is the produce 

 of another tree, the Drimys winter*. 



CANEL'LA AL'BA. 1. The specific name of 



the canella tree. 2. The false Winter's 



bark, Canella cubana, which is the inner 

 bark of the branches of the Canella- tree. 

 It is brought into this country packed in 

 casks and cases, in long pieces, some rolled 

 in quills and others flat. The odour, when 

 newly broken, is aromatic, something 

 like a mixture of cloves and cinnamon ; 

 and the taste slightly bitter, and ex- 

 tremely warm and pungent. 



CANEL'LA CELYAN'ICA, Cinnamon, the 

 bark of the Lauras cinnamonum. 



CANEL'LE.S, canella being the type, a 

 natural order of plants, consisting of S. 

 American shrubs. 



CANE-MILL, a mill on sugar plantations, 

 for expressing the juice of the sugar-cane. 



CANEPHO'RIA, in Grecian archaeology, L 

 A ceremony which formed part of a fes 

 tival celebrated by the Athenian ladies oi 

 Ir marriage-eve : it consisted in pre 

 senting a basket of offerings to Minerva : 



to obtain leave to marry. 2. A festiva. 



in honour of Bacchus, in which a train oi 

 virgins carried covered baskets. The term 



