CPage 59
- English Word Canoeing Definition The act or art of using a canoe.
- English Word Canoeist Definition A canoeman.
- English Word Canoeman Definition One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe.
- English Word Canoemen Definition of Canoeman
- English Word Canoes Definition of Canoe
- English Word Canon Definition A law or rule.
- English Word Canon Definition A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
- English Word Canon Definition The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
- English Word Canon Definition In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- English Word Canon Definition A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- English Word Canon Definition A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
- English Word Canon Definition A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
- English Word Canon Definition The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
- English Word Canon Definition The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
- English Word Canon Definition See Carom.
- English Word Canon bit Definition That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
- English Word Canon bone Definition The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
- English Word Canoness Definition A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
- English Word Canonic Definition Alt. of Cannonical
- English Word Canonically Definition In a canonical manner; according to the canons.