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person deceased xn the catalogue of saints, I the species possess, in a greater or lew 

 which is the practice of the Komian <l<x<ree, epispastic powers. 



church, and performed by the pope. 



CAN'ONRY, an ecclesiastical benefice in 

 a cathedral or collegiate church, which 

 has a prebend or stated allowance out of 

 the revenues of the church ; the benefice 

 filled by a canon. 



CANO'PUS, a bright starof the first mag- 

 nitude, in the rudder of Argo. Canoptis 

 was the pilot of the ship Argo. 



CAN'OPY, a magnificent covering for an 

 altar, throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair, or 

 the like ; also the label or projecting 

 moulding that surrounds the arches and 

 heads of gothic niches. The term is Greek , 

 , a pavilion or net spread 



over the head to keep off gnats, 

 xtuverj/, a gnat. 



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CANT (D. kant, a corner). An external 



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angle. To cant signifies to toss or turn 

 over, from Lat. cano. Cant signifies also 

 a piece of wood laid on deck for the sup- 

 port of a bulk-head. 



CAX'TALIVERS, cantle and eaves. Blocks 

 cf wood or iron, which are placed at 

 regular distances, projecting at right 

 angles to the surface of a wall, to support 

 the eaves of a house or the upper mould- 

 ings of a cornice. Cantaliver is, therefore, 

 essentially the same as modillion.butthe 

 latter word is confined to the description 

 of regular architecture, while the former 

 has a general and trivial use. 



CAN'TARO, a weight at Acra = 603 Ibs. ; 

 at Tunis and Tripoli = 100 rottoli, or 

 111' 05 Ibs. At Alexandria it is also 100 

 rottoli, but the rottolo has different names 

 and weights. At Genoa, the cantaro of 

 100 Ibs. peso sottile, 69'89 Ibs. avoir., 

 and the cantaro of 100 Ibs. peso grosso, 

 -= 76-875 Ibs. avoir. At Leghorn the can- 

 taro is generally 150 Ibs. ; but a cantaro of 

 sugar is 151 Ibs., of oil 88 Ibs., of brandy 



CANTHAR'IDIN, the peculiar principle of 

 the cantharides, which causes vesication. 



CAN'THARIS (plural Cantharides), the 

 blister-fly or Spanish -fly, common in 

 Spain, Italy, and France, and well known 

 for its medical uses. Synonyms, Can- 

 tharis resicatoris, Geoff. ; Meloe vesicatoria, 

 Lin. ; Lytta vesicatoria, Fabr. The insect 

 is about the third of an inch in length, of 

 a golden glossy green, with simple, regu- 

 lar, black antennae. Name xav6<x>>ii, 



from Muring** a beetle. 



CAN'THARVS. I. In archeology, a cistern 

 in the middle of the atrium, before the 

 ancient churches, wherein persons washed 

 their hands and faces, before they en- 

 tered. The cantharus of a Roman foun- 

 tain was the apparatus out of which the 

 water issued, made of many different 



forms. 2. A genus of acanthoptery- 



gious fishes of the sparoid-family. The 

 body is thick and round, not unlike a jug 

 (the literal meaning ot cantharus) . There 

 are two species found in the Atlantic and 

 Mediterranean. 



CANTHUS, Lat. from xa,y6of, the angle 

 or corner of the eye, where the upper 

 and under eyelids meet. That nearest the 

 nose is called the greater, and the other 

 the lesser canthus. Plural canthi. 



CANTICLE, a song, from Lat. canticum. 

 In the plural canticles, the Song of Solo- 

 mon, one of the books of the Old Testa- 

 ment, called by the Jews the Song of 

 Songs (canticum canticorum), and gene- 

 rally supposed to be an epithalaniiuia 

 composed by Solomon on the occasion of 

 his marriage with the King of Egypt's 

 daughter. 



CANT'INO, see CANT. The cutting away 

 a part of an angular body at one of iu 



, - - angles, that the section may form a paral- 



20 Ibs., of stock-fish 160 Ibs. At Naples | lelogram, whose edges are parallel from 

 the cantaro grosso --- 169 Ibs. ; the cantaro I the intersection of the adjoining planes, 

 piccolo = 106 Ibs. avoir. At Alicant, in j CAN'TLE, a fragment or small portion. 

 Spam, the cantaro is a liquid measure i This is the root of the word Scantling. 

 of eight medios = 3'05 English wine CANT-MOULTMNG, a moulding with a 

 gallons, bevelied surface. 



CAN TA'TA a poem set to music. A com- j CAN'TO, Italian, a song. L'sed to denote 

 position or song intermixed with recita- a division of a poem, otherwise called a 

 lives and airs, chiefly intended for a book. The word is also used to denote 

 single voice. The term is Italian, from j the treble part of a song, and wilhsecundo 

 cantart, to sing. j added it means the second treble. Canto- 



CANTEE'S, a tin or wooden vessel, used ' fermo means the subject song, 

 by soldiers to carry liquors for drink: it [ CAN'TON, a word found in most Euro- 

 holds three pints. j pean languages, and signifying primarily 

 CAN'TERBCRY-BEI.LS, a biennial species a corner. 1. In geography, a division or 

 of the bell-flower, the Capanula medium j small parcel of a country, constituting a 

 of botanists. i distinct state or government, as the can- 



CAST-BODY, in shipbuilding. See FRAME. tons of Switzerland. 2. In heraldry, an 



CANT-FRAME, in shipbuilding. &FRAME. j ordinary, so called because it occupies 



CANTHAR'ID^:, a tribe of coleopterous i only a cantle or corner of the escutcheon. 



insects of the trachelide family. The i CAN'TONED. When the angle* of a 



cantharis gives name to this tribe, and all building are ado .Tied with columns, pi 



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