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ales.—The horfenien fit like fixed candlejlicks, with torch- 
flaves in their hands. Shakefpeare. 
CAN'DLESTUFF,/. Any thing of which candles may 
be made ; kitchen-ftuff; greafe ; tallow.—By the help of 
oil, and wax, and other candkjluff, the flame may continue, 
and the wick not burn. Bacon. 
CAN'DLE-WASTER,/. One that confumes candles; 
a fpendthritt : 
Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk 
With candle-wafers. Shakefpeare. 
CAN'DOCK,/ A weed that grows in rivers.—Let the 
pond lie dry fix or twelve months, both to kill the water- 
weeds, as water-lilies, candocks, reate, and bulrulhes ; and 
alfo, that, as thefe die for want of water, fo grafs may 
grow on the pond’s bottom. Walton. 
CAN'DOUR,/ [from candor , Lat.] Sweetnefs of tem¬ 
per ; purity of mind ; opennefs ; ingenuity ; kindnefs.— 
He fhould have fo much of a natural candour and fweet- 
nefs, mixed with all the improvements of learning, as might 
convey knowledge with a fort of gentle infinuation. Watts. 
To C AN'DY, v. a. [probably from candare, a word ufed 
in later times for to whiten. ] To conferve with fugar, in 
fuch a manner as that the fugar lies in flakes, or breaks 
into fpangles: 
Should the poor be flatter’d ? 
No, let the candy' d tongue lick abfurd pomp, 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. Shakefpeare. 
To form into congelations : 
Will the cold brook, 
Candied with ice, caudle thy morning toaft, 
To cure thy o’er-night’s furfeit I Shakefpeare. 
To incruft with congelations : 
Since when tliofe frofts that winter bringSj 
Which candy every green, 
Renew us like the teeming fprings. 
And we thus frefli are feen. Dryden. 
To CAN'DY, v. n. To grow congealed. 
CAN'DY, a city of the ifland of Ceylon, and capital of 
a province to which it gives name, but not the refidence 
of the king. It was feveral times deflroyed by the Portu- 
guefe, when they had territorial poffefiion in the ifland. 
The air is wholefome, and the climate good. The king¬ 
dom is divided into feveral provinces, fome of which are 
populous and fertile, interfered with rivers, and well 
furnifhed with woods. Lat. 7. 36. N. Ion. 80. 38. E. 
Greenwich. 
CANE,/, [from canna , Lat.] A ftrong reed, of which 
walking-flicks are made ; a walking-ftaff.—If the poker be 
out of the way, or broken, fiir the fire with your mafter’s 
cane. Swift. —The plant which yields the fugar : 
And the fweet liquor on the cane beftow, 
From which prepar’d the lufeious fugars flow. Blackmore. 
A lance ; a dart made of cane : whence the Spanifh inego 
de cannas. 
Judge-like thou fitt’fi, to praife or to drraign 
The flying Ikirmifh of the darted cane. Dryden. 
To CANE, v. a. To beat with a walking-flick. 
CANE,/. A long meafure, ufed in different countries; 
Viz. the cane of Genoa, for filk, is nine palms, 100 of 
which make twenty-fix yards Englifh. Of Genoa, for li¬ 
nen and woollen, is ten palms, which make 2$ yards En- 
glifh. Of Leghorn, is four braces, which make two ells 
Englifh, and eight braces is five yards Englifh. Of Mar- 
feilles, is yards Englifh. Of Medina, is 2% yards En¬ 
glifh. Of Rome, contains ejght palms, and thirty canes 
is 55! ells Englifh. 
CANE, a river of Hindooflan, which runs into the Jum- 
nah, twenty miles fouth-caft of Corah. 
CANE,/ in botany. See Ar.undo„ 
Vol. HI, No. *2 7. 
CAN ^3 
CANE'A, a fea-port town of the ifland of Cdndia, fitu- 
ated at the eaftern extremity of a bay, oh the north fide 
of the ifland, anciently known by the name of Cydon. or Cy. 
donia , about two miles in circumference, furrounded on 
the land fide by a range of thick walls, and defended to¬ 
ward the fea by batteries mounted with cannon ; and is 
fuppofed to contain 16,000 inhabitants. The harbour ad¬ 
mits fhips of zoo tons burthen, and might be deepened to 
admit veffels of a larger fize. Canea was attacked by the 
Turks in the year 1645, in the time of peace, without the 
leafl information, yet, notwithftanding the utmofi endea¬ 
vours of the befiegers, it withflood the whole Ottoman 
army of 60,000 men for fifty days, and then obtained ho¬ 
nourable terms, and marched out with all the honours of 
war. The Turks loft 25,000 men in the fiege. Sixty miles 
weft of Candia, Lat. 35. 26. N. Ion. 41,40. E. Ferro. 
CA'NEFIELD, a town of America, in the ftate of 
South Carolina : fix miles north-north-weft of Queenbo- 
rough. 
CANEL'LA,/. The YL-ute Cinnamon Tree; in 
botany, a genus of the clafs dodecandria, order monogynia. 
The generic chara&ers are—Calyx: perianthium one-leaf- 
ed, three-lobed ; lobes roundifh. Corolla: petals five, ob¬ 
long, feflile, longer than thecalyx, two a little narrower than 
the reft : netftary pitcher-fhaped, the length of the petals, 
anther-bearing. Stamina : filaments none ; antheraj twen¬ 
ty-one, linear, parallel, diftinft, faftened on the outfide to 
the netftary, Piftillum : germ fuperior, within the nec¬ 
tary, ovate. Style cylindric, the length of the nedtary. 
Stigmas two, blunt, convex, wrinkled. Pericarpium: 
berry oblong, three-celled. Seeds roundifli-kidney-ftiaped 
(two to four), in pairs, cordate.— EJfential Character. Ca¬ 
lyx three-lobed, corolla five-petallea, anthene twenty-one 
fattened to a pitcher-fhaped neCtary, berry three-celled, 
feeds two to four. 
There is only one fpecies, called canella alba, or laurel- 
leaved canella. It is a tree, the ftem of which rifes front 
ten to fifty feet in height, very ftraight and upright, 
and branched only at the top. The bark is whitifh, by 
which it its known at firft fight in the woods. The bran¬ 
ches are erect, and not fpreading. Leaves petiolated, al¬ 
ternate, but not regularly, oblong, pointed, entire, with¬ 
out any diftinft nerved or veins, dark green, of a thick 
confidence like thofe of laurel, and Alining. The flowers 
grow at the tops of the branches in clufters, but upon di¬ 
vided peduncles ; they are fmall and feldom open, and of 
a violet colour. The lobes of the calyx are divided almoft 
to the bottom, incumbent, green, fmooth, membranaceous, 
permanent. The petals are concave, upright, thick, and 
deciduous; as is alfo the neflary. The berry is flefhv, 
fmooth, black : the receptacle is the central angle of the 
cells, to which the feeds are fixed. The feeds are regu¬ 
larly two in each cell, bst one or two cells are commonly 
abortive ; they differ in form, but are ufually globular, 
and beaked, always very fmooth, black and fliining, the 
outer (kin is cruftaceous, thin, and brittle ; the inner of a 
bay-brown colour. It is common in molt of the Weft-In- 
dia iflands, and is frequently found near the coalt; then 
feldom exceeding twelve or fifteen feet: in the inland 
woods it attains a more confiderable height. The whole 
tree is very aromatic, and when in bloffom perfumes the 
whole neighbourhood. The flowers dried, and foftened 
again in warm water, have a fragrant odour, nearly ap¬ 
proaching to that of rnulk. The leaves have a ftrong fmell 
of laurel. The berries, after having been fome time green, 
turn blue, and become at laft of a black colour and gloffy, 
with a faint aromatic tafte and fmell. When ripe, the 
white-bellied and bald-pate pigeons feed greedily upon 
them, and thence acquire their peculiar flavour. 
This bark, and the fruit of caplicum, were formerly 
common ingredients in the food and drink of the Caribs ; 
and, at prelent it makes a neceffary ingredient in the mea¬ 
gre pot of the negroes. It was cultivated in 1739, by Mr. 
Miller. The bark is brought to Europe in long quills, 
which are about three quarters of an inch in diameter, 
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