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inhere, juft bilow Gemini, and is one of the fbrty;eight 
old confiellations. The Greeks fabled that this is one of 
Orion’s hounds; but the Egyptians were mod: probably 
the inventors of this conftellation, jnd they mav have gi¬ 
ven it this-figure to exprefs a little-dog, or watchful crea¬ 
ture, going before as leading in the larger, or riling before 
it r and hence the -Latins-have called it Antecanis, the ftar 
before the dog. The liars in thi-s conliellation are, in 
Ptolemy’s catalogue 2, the principal of which is the ftar 
Procyon ; in Tycho’s 5 ; in Hevelius’s 1.3 ; and in Flam- 
ileed’s 14. 
CA'NISBAY, * fmall fi filing town of Scotland, in the 
county of Caithness, and molt northern part of Scotland : 
eleven miles north of Wick. 
CANIS'CHA, a town of Hungary. It was taken by the 
Turks in the year 1600, who held it till 1690, when it was 
taken by the Imperial troops, after a blockade of two 
years, and ceded to the emperor by the peace of Carlo- 
witz : ninety-fix miles fouth ot Vienna, and 124 north-weft 
of Peter Wardein. 
CANI'SIUS,(Henry), born at Nimeguen, was profdTor 
of canon law at Ingollladt, and died in 1609. He left be¬ 
hind him feveral valuable works, 1. Sunima Juris Cano- 
flict. 2. Commentarium in Regulas Juris. 3. Antiquae 
Leifliones, 7 vdls. 4to. reprinted by the care of M. James 
Pafnage, under the title of Thefaurus Monumentoruin 
Eccleliaflicorum et Hiftoricoriun, &c. Amfterdam, 1725. 
The learned editor has enriched them with particular pre¬ 
faces at the head of each work indicating the fubject and 
the author, accompanied by ufeful and curious remarks, 
and lame notes and variantes of Capperonier. This col¬ 
lection comprifes feveral pieces of great importance to tire 
hiftory of the middle ages, and to chronology in general. 
CANISO'LA, a town of the ifland of Clierlo, in thd 
Adriatic : twenty-two miles north of Chcrfo. 
CA'NI'STER,yi [ canijlrum , Lat.] A fmall bafket: 
White lilies in full canijlers they bring. 
With all the glories of the purple fpring. Drydtn. 
A fmall veflel in which any thing, fuch as tea or coffee, 
is laid up. 
CA'NISTER (Great), a final 1 ifland in the Bay of Ben¬ 
gal, near the coaft of Siam. Lat. 12. 58. N. Ion. 97. 40. 
E. Greenwich. 
C A'NISTER (Little), a fmall ifland in the Bay of Ben- 
§ al, near the coal! of Siam: two leagues fouth from the 
treat Canifter. 
CA'NISTER (Wed), a fmall ifland in tire Bay of Ben¬ 
gal, near the coait ofSiam. Lat, 12.37.N. Ion. 97.16. 
E. Greenwich. 
CA'NISY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Channel, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of St. 
Lo : four miles fouth-weft of St. Lo. 
CA'NITZ, or Caniz (the baron of), a German poet 
and ftatefman, was of an ancient and illuftrious family in 
Brandenburg, born at Berlin in 1564. After his early du¬ 
ties, he travelled to France, Italy, Holland, and England; 
and upon his return to his native country, was employed 
as envoy by Frederic William, elector of Brandenburg. 
His poems are much admired by his countrymen ; and they 
refleit honour on his affectionate heart, as well as on his 
genius, Moll of them were of the moral elegiac kind, ex- 
preffive either of the tendered: fentiments of conjugal af- 
•feCtion, or of fuch reflections as naturally occurred to a 
contemplative tnind on the various events of human life. 
As he died of a lingering difeale, he had an opportunity 
or obferving the flow but certain approaches of his halt 
enemy ; which he did with the calnmefs and fortitude that 
became the Chrifiian philofopher. After his phyficians 
had given him over, he ordered a Ikull to be brought to 
him, and dictated fome poetical meditations on this objeCt 
in connection with his own circtimflances, and which are 
deemed the mod beautiful of his productions. He retained 
his cheerfulnefs to the very lad ; and, jud before his death, 
defired his attendant to convey him to the window, which 
CAM 
lie opened ; when, having gazed fome minutes at the ri¬ 
ling fun, he exclaimed, “ Oh ! if the view of only a part 
of the creation can be thus beautiful and reviving, how 
infinitely delightful mud be that of the Creator !'* He 
fpoke, and died—in 1699, aged 45, 
CAN'KER,y. [ cancer, Lat. It feems to have the fame 
meaning and original with cancer, but to be accidentally 
written with a k, when it denotes bad qualities in a lefs 
degree ; or canker might come from chancre, Fr. and cancer 
from the Latin.] A worm that preys upon and dedroys 
fruits.—That which the locud hath left, hath the canker - 
worm eaten. Joel, i. 4.—A fly that preys upon fruits.— 
There be of flies, caterpillars, canker flies, and bear flies. 
Walton. —Any thing that corrupts or confutes.—It is the 
canker and ruin of many men’s eflates, which, in procefs 
of time, breeds a public poverty. Bacon. —A kind of wild 
rofe ; the dog role.—Draw a cherry with the leaf, the 
fliaft of a deeple, a Angle or canker rofe. Pcacham.—rAn 
eating or corroding humour : 
1 am not glad, that fuch a fore of time 
Should feeka plaider by contemn’d revolt, 
And heal th’ inveterate canker of one wound 
By making many. Shakcfpeart. 
Corrofion ; virulence ; a difeafe in trees. The canker in 
trees arifes from fmall infeCts or animalcules which form a 
nidus in the bark, and thereby flop the progrefs of the ve¬ 
getable fluid. A certain cure maybe effected by rubbing 
the part with hog’s-lard, or tar. 
To CAN'KER, v. n. To grow corrupt: implying fomc- 
thing venomous and malignant : 
Let envious jealoufy and canker'd, fpite 
Produce my actions to fevered light. 
And tax my open day or fecret night. Prior. 
To decay by fome corrofive or deftruCtive principle.—Sil¬ 
vering will fully and canker more than gilding ; which, if 
it might be corrected with a little mixture of gold, will be 
profitable. Bacon. 
To CAN'KER, v. a. To corrupt ; to corrode; to in- 
fe< 5 t ; to pollute.—An boned man will enjoy himfelf bet¬ 
ter in a moderate fortune, that is gained with honour and 
reputation, than in an overgrown edate, that is cankered 
with the acquiiitions of rapine and exaction. Addij'on. 
CAN'KER of the MOUTH, f. A deep, foul, irregular, 
Fcedd ulcer, with jagged edges, which appears upon the 
infideiof the lips and cheeks; and is attended with a copi¬ 
ous flow of offenfive faliva. For the caufe and cure, fee 
the article’M edicine. 
CAN'KERBIT, particip. adj. Bitten with an envenom¬ 
ed tooth: 
Ki*ow, thy name is lod, 
By treafon’s tooth bare-gnavvn and cankerbit. Shakejpcare. 
CANN (John), a leader of the Englifli Brownids at 
Amderdam, whither he fled on the'refloration. His em¬ 
ploy in England before his flight feems to have been no 
other than compiling the weekly news ; yet he found tinker 
to collate many paflages of feripture, frqm whence he drew 
his notes, which he placed in the margin of his bible ; the 
fird edition printed in 8vo. at Amderdam, in 1664, is the 
rared. Fie entertained a whimfical conceit, that the ori¬ 
ginal text of feripture in Hebrew and Greek fhould be 
tranflated, as much as podible, word for word, as Ainf- 
worth did the Pentateuch, the Pfalms, and Canticles, 
which were all printed together in folio, 1639. 
CAN'NA,y. [ufually not didinguifhed from arundo and 
calamus-, but it is larger than the firft, and lefs than the 
fecond. Ka.net is interpreted i]/ia8or, which fignifies “a 
mat,” and was made of ibis plant. Hence our word cane. ] 
The Indian Fdoweking-Rehd, or Cane; in botany, a 
genus of the clafs monandria, order monogynia, natural 
order feitaminere. The generic characters are—Calyx : 
perianthium three-leaved; leaflets lanceolate, ereCt, fmall, 
coloured, permanent. Corollas monopetalous, iix-part- 
*d-j divifions lanceolate, conjoined at the bafe, the three 
outer 
