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fumptuous choir. The wed: door, in its primitive date, 
was very noble, and is dill a curious remain of Saxon ar¬ 
chitecture; over it are two lofty fpires, known by the 
name of the Two Sillers, which are very ufeful land¬ 
marks to mariners navigating this part of the coaft ofKent. 
CAN'TERBURY, a town of the American States, in 
Rockingham county, New* Hampfliire, fituated on the 
eadern bank of Merrimack river: fourteen miles north 
by wed of Concord, forty-five north-wed of Exeter, and 
fifty-four from Portfmouth. 
CAN'TERBURY, a town of the American States, in 
Windham county, Connecticut, on the wed fide of Quin- 
nabaug river, which feparates it from Plainfield. It is 
(evert miles ead by fouth of Windham, and about twelve 
north of Norwich. 
CAN'TERBURY BELL, f in botany. See Campa¬ 
nula. 
CAN'TERBURY GALLOP,y. in horfemandiip, the 
liand gallop of an ambling horfe, commonly called a ain¬ 
ter; laid to be derived from the monks riding to Canter¬ 
bury on eafy ambling horfes. 
CANTU, a town of Silefi i, in the principality of Bref- 
lau, on the WiAritz : twelve miles fout-h-weft of Breflau, 
and eighteen north-end of Schweidnitz. 
CANTH AREL'LUS. See Agaricus. 
C ANTII AR'IDES.y [ofy.avfi^o?, Gr. a beetle.] In 
medicine, thofe acrid flies of which bliders,,&c. are com¬ 
pounded. They appear to have been firft introduced 
for medical life by the Arabian phyficians, who em¬ 
ployed feveral different kinds; but the fpecies now pre¬ 
ferred to all others, is the Lytta veficatoria ; which fee. 
Thofe formerly in ufe being brought from Spain, they 
thence acquired the name of Spanish Flies ; but they 
tire more or lets inhabitants of all parts of Europe. Tiie 
powdered flies, the (pirituous extract, or the watery one, 
applied to the fkin, all bliller it equally. The extradf, 
or tinfture, has the character of warming and increafing 
the circulation of the parts to which it may be applied 
in rheumatic pains, fciatica, the wandering gout, &c. 
For exciting amorous defires in woman, and increafing 
Jufl in men, both tinfture and powder have been im- 
providently ufed, to the great injury of the human con- 
ftitution. 
C ANTMARIF'ER A . See Nepenthes. 
CAN'THARIS, f. in entomology, a genus of infedts 
belonging to the order of coleoptera ; the characters of 
which are: Antennas filiform; thorax in general mar¬ 
gined, and (hotter than the head ; wing-cafes flexile ; 
tides of the abdomen edged with folded pa pi 1 las. Tliefe 
infedts were very early ufed by the French furgeons for 
bliflers, whence they acquired the name of French 
Flies; as thofe ufed in Spain acquired the name of 
Spanish Flies : and from their generic name, all flies 
which have been employed by different nations for com¬ 
pounding blilter-plaffers, whether of the genus Lytta, 
or Meloe, or Bupreffis, See. have received the common 
denomination of cantharidcs. Thele, however, are now 
the lead ufed for this purpofe ; having given place to 
the Lytta veficatoria ; which lee under Lytta. The genus 
Cantharis comprifes one hundred and one fpecies, which 
are chaffed in three divilions, according to the form of 
their antennas, viz. 
I. Feelers four, hatchet-fhaped.—In this divifion thofe 
bed known for their acrid property in railing bliders, are 
the following : Cantharis fufea ; thorax red, with a black 
fp or, (hells brown; inhabits France and England, and 
mod parts of Europe. This is coireftly delineated on 
the Engraving of Cantharis and Cari'ssa,’ at fig. z. 
— C. livida ; body and (hells entirely tedaceous ; lound 
plentifully in France, Spain, and England ; delineated at 
fig. 3.—C. ruficollis; (hells brownifh black, thorax and 
abdomen rufous red; inhabits France, Spain, and Eng¬ 
land; delineated at fig. 4.—C. minima; thorax rufous 
with a black (pot, body brown, (hells eroded with yel¬ 
low ; inhabits Europe; reprefented at fig. 5.—C. teda- 
cea; thorax black with a yellow (pot, body and legs 
4 
CAN 
black, fl’.ells tedaceous; inhabits Europe; fhown at fig, 
—C. biguttata; black, (hells abbreviated, with two yel¬ 
low drops or bands; native of Europe; delineated at fig. 7. 
II. Feelers filiform, lad joint fetaceous : the Mala- 
Chius of Fabrieius.—In this divifion the following have 
been ufed as French Jlies ,; viz. Cantharis tenea; heads,, 
thorax, and upper part of the wing-cafes, bright polilhed 
green, lower part and Tides red; inhabits France, Spain, 
and England-; corredtly delineated at fig. 8.—C. bipufiu- 
lata ; brafly green, diells or wing-cafes red at the tip; 
native of France, Spain, England, and other parts of 
Europe; reprefented at fig. 9.—C. fafeiata ; thorax and 
(hells black, fafeiated with two rufous bands; native of 
Europe ; a very fnuill fpecies, diown at fig. 10.—Both of 
thefe divilions of Cantharides are extremely rapacious, 
preying on other infedts, and even devouring one another, 
and the larva; of their own tribe. 
III. Fore-feelers projecting, the lad joint ovate, cleft; 
the Lymexylon of Fabrieius.—The infedts which form 
this divifion, both in the larva and perfect date, feed o'nly 
on green wood, and are often very injurious to oak-trees, 
There are however only fix fpecies of them ; one of 
Which, Cantharis probofcidea, is delineated on the En¬ 
graving at fig. 11. 
CAN'THERUSjy. with carpenters, a tranfum,a fpar; 
a rafter reaching from the ridge to the eves; a lever, 
a horfe or treflel to (aw or cut timber on. 
CANTHELE'A, or Canthali a, in ancient geogra¬ 
phy, a maritime town of Africa, in the territory of C11- 
rubis, and in the vicinity of Carthage. 
CAN'THIUM, in botany, a genus formed by La March, 
and adopted by Juffieu, for two plants nearly allied to 
Gardenia and Coflea ; but dated by La Marck to differ 
from the former in their two-feeded berries, and from the 
latter in their diort flowers and limp'le ffigrna. One of 
them is Gardenia fpinofa ; for which fee Gardenia, vol. 
viii. p. 251 ; for tire other, which is the Canthium parvif.o- 
rum of Dr. Roxburgh, fee Webera tetrandra. 
CA'NTHUS,/. [from *b« 0 os, the iron binding of a cart 
wheel.] The angle or corner of the eye. From its ety¬ 
mology, it feems originally to have fignified the circular 
extremity of the eye-lid. 
C AN'l ICLE, f. [from canto, Lat.] A fong; ufed ge¬ 
nerally for a fong in feripture.—This right of eftate, in 
fonte nations, is yet more (ignificantly expreffed by Mofes 
in his canticles, in thepeifon of God and the Jews. Bacon. 
—A canto, or divifion of a poem : 
The end whereof and dangerous event 
Shall for another canticle be fpar’d, Spcnfcr. 
C AN' , TICLES,y in the Old Tedament, th'e Songof Sa¬ 
lomon ■, called by the Jews the * fong of longs,’ canticum 
canticorum. The book of Canticles isufually fuppoledto 
be an epithalamium compoled by Solomon on the occa- 
fion of his marriage with the king of Egypt’s daughter. 
This fong contains the adventures of feven days and feven 
nights ; t lie exahl time allowed for the celebration of mar¬ 
riage among the Hebrews. The Jews, apprehending the 
book liable to be underdood in a grofs and carnal man¬ 
ner, indead of the fpiritual, prohibited the reading of it 
betore the age of thirty; and the fame ufage anciently ob¬ 
tained in the Chriftian church. 
CAN FIL'I VERS,/. Pieces of wood framed into the 
front or Tides ot a houfe, to Tuftain the moulding and 
eaves over it. Moxon. 
CANTILLA'NA, a town of Spain, in Seville, on 
the Guadalquiver : eleven miles north wed of Carmona. 
CANTIMA'RON, or Catimaron, f. A kind bf 
float or raft, tiled on the coaff of Coromandel. It is 
made of three or four finall canoes, or trunks of trees dug 
hollow, and tied together with ropes, with a triangular 
fail in the middle. 
CANl'ING, f. The aft of talking in a corrupt dia- 
left, talking in a whining affedfed manner ; giving a hid¬ 
den turn to a piece of timber, tolling away. 
CANTING, aelj. Hypocritical; afifefted. 
CANT'ING 
