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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>CANNEDHE</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="cannedheat"> canned heat,<DL COMPACT><DD> a preparation, sold in small cans, which can be lighted and used as a fire for cooking. </DL> <A NAME="cannelcoal"> cannel coal, or cannel, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> bituminous coal in large lumps that burns with a bright flame. </DL> <A NAME="cannelloni"> cannelloni, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. pasta in the shape of thick tubes, usually stuffed with meat or cheese and often served with a sauce. <DD> 2. a pastry roll served with a sweetened cream filling and sprinkled with powdered sugar. </DL> <A NAME="canneloid"> canneloid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> resembling cannel coal. </DL> <A NAME="cannelon"> cannelon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD> 1. a hollow roll of puff paste. <DD> 2. a roll of minced and seasoned meat or the like, baked or fried. </DL> <A NAME="cannelure"> cannelure, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a groove or channel in a surface. </DL> <A NAME="cannelured"> cannelured, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> grooved; fluted. </DL> <A NAME="cannequin"> cannequin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white cotton cloth from the East Indies that was popular during the 1700's. </DL> <A NAME="canner"> canner, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who cans food. <DD> 2. (U.S.) <DD> a. an old cow or steer, having meat fit only for canning. Ex. Tough old cows--meat men call them canners and cutters--sold yesterday for over 10 cents a pound here (Wall Street Journal). <DD> b. a poor grade of beef obtained from such an animal. Ex. The remaining four grades--commercial, utility, cutter and canner--are lacking in fat, tenderness and juices, and usually come from older animals (Science News Letter). </DL> <A NAME="cannery"> cannery, noun, pl. -neries.<DL COMPACT><DD> a factory where food is canned. Ex. a tuna cannery. </DL> <A NAME="cannibal"> cannibal, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a person who eats human flesh. Ex. Tribes of cannibals once lived on islands in the south Pacific Ocean. (SYN) man-eater, anthropophagite. <DD> 2. an animal that eats others of its own kind. Ex. Many fishes are cannibals. <DD>adj. 1. of or having to do with cannibals or cannibalism. Ex. Cannibal ants help control ants that destroy crops. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) like cannibals; bloodthirsty. (SYN) sanguinary. </DL> <A NAME="cannibalic"> cannibalic, adjective. =cannibalistic.</DL> <A NAME="cannibalise"> cannibalise, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -ised, -ising.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) cannibalize. </DL> <A NAME="cannibalism"> cannibalism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or habit of eating the flesh of one's own kind. Ex. Most animals do not practice cannibalism. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) bloodthirstiness; barbarity. </DL> <A NAME="cannibalistic"> cannibalistic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of cannibals; characteristic of cannibals. Ex. An animal that consumes members of its own species is termed cannibalistic, and one that eats dead animals is a scavenger (Tracy I. Storer). adv. cannibalistically. </DL> <A NAME="cannibalize"> cannibalize, verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to take usable parts from (a vehicle, piece of machinery, or the like) to assemble or repair another. Ex. My brother cannibalized a baby carriage to get its wheels for a racing car. <DD> 2a. to eat the flesh of or devour (an animal of the same kind). Ex. The south polar skua is its own predator, cannibalizing chicks in the nests of its skua neighbors (Scientific American). <DD> b. (Figurative:) Ex. "Betty's doing a real good job," she said firmly. "We girls have got to stop cannibalizing each other" (Harper's). <DD>v.i. 1. to salvage parts for repair work, or to make repairs by means of salvaged parts. <DD> 2. to devour one's own kind; practice cannibalism. noun cannibalization. </DL> <A NAME="cannie"> cannie, adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) canny. </DL> <A NAME="cannikin"> cannikin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small can or drinking cup. Ex. a cannikin of rum. <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, canikin. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="canning"> canning, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the preserving of food by sealing it up in airtight cans or jars. </DL> <A NAME="cannon"> cannon, noun, pl. -nons or (collectively) -non, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a big gun that is too large to be carried by hand and is fixed to the ground, or mounted on a carriage or in a tank or other vehicle, or on an airplane. Cannons can be raised and lowered to different positions, such as the howitzer used as an artillery piece, or can be set in a fixed position, such as a mortar. The old-fashioned kind of cannon that fired cannonballs was much used during the Civil War and as the principal piece of naval armament until the twentieth century. <DD> 2. =cannon bone. <DD> 3. (Mechanics.) a hollow, cylindrical piece that revolves or is capable of revolving on and independently of a shaft. <DD> 4. the metal loop by which a bell is suspended; ear. <DD> 5. (British, Billiards.) =carom. <DD> 6. a smooth, round bit for a horse; cannon bit. <DD> 7. (U.S. Slang.) a pickpocket. Ex. Like all big sports events, the crowd and its money attract a big turnout of confidence men, touts, bookmakers and cannons (This Week). <DD>v.i. 1. to discharge a cannon. <DD> 2. (British, Billiards.) =carom. <DD> 3. to come into collision. Ex. to cannon against a tree. <DD>v.t. 1. to attack with cannon; cannonade. Ex. My mother was killed when the Russians cannoned the village (New Yorker). <DD> 2. (British, Billiards.) to cause to carom. </DL> <A NAME="cannonade"> cannonade, noun, verb, -aded, -ading.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a continued firing of cannon; barrage. Ex. the crash of the cannonade. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) a verbal assault. Ex. a furious political cannonade. <DD>v.t. to attack with or as if with cannons; batter with cannon. Ex. ... throwing shells and cannonading the ships (Robert Beatson). The Dodgers cannonaded five Yankee hurlers with fourteen hits (Newsweek). <DD>v.i. to discharge cannon; fire large guns. Ex. A Confederate band had struck up a medley of polkas and waltzes in the very midst of the fiercest cannonading (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="cannonball"> cannonball, noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. Also, cannon ball. a large iron or steel ball formerly fired from cannons. Cannonballs were usually solid. <DD> 2. a very fast, straight serve in tennis. Ex. He returned Froehling's cannonball beautifully, breaking him twice in the first set (New Yorker). <DD> 3. (Informal.) anything that moves or travels very fast. <DD>adj. (Informal.) very fast. Ex. a cannonball delivery. <DD>v.i. (U.S. Slang.) to travel fast and hard. Ex. The secondary low began cannonballing up the coast, while the Canadian high pushed down into New England (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="cannonballtree"> cannon-ball tree,<DL COMPACT><DD> a South American tree that bears a large, round fruit from whose pulp a sweet drink is made. It is related to the Brazil-nut tree. </DL> <A NAME="cannonbit"> cannon bit,<DL COMPACT><DD> a smooth, round bit for a horse; cannon. </DL> <A NAME="cannonbone"> cannon bone,<DL COMPACT><DD> the bone between the hock or knee and the fetlock, especially of a horse. </DL> <A NAME="cannoncracker"> cannon cracker,<DL COMPACT><DD> a large firecracker. </DL> <A NAME="cannoneer"> cannoneer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an artilleryman; gunner. </DL> <A NAME="cannoneering"> cannoneering, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the duties or skill of a cannoneer. </DL> <A NAME="cannonfodder"> cannon fodder,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. soldiers considered as expendable war material. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) useful material; grist to the mill. Ex. Since civilization began the young and still hopeful have been our cannon fodder when the older ones fail ... to use good sense in their solution of the world's problems (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="cannonism"> Cannonism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) excessive or partisan use of the power of the Speaker in the House of Representatives. </DL> <A NAME="cannonmetal"> cannon metal,<DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of bronze used formerly in making cannon or guns; gun metal. </DL> <A NAME="cannonpinion"> cannon pinion,<DL COMPACT><DD> the perforated pinion which carries the minute hand and drives the minute wheel of a watch. </DL> <A NAME="cannonry"> cannonry, noun, pl. -ries.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a continued firing of cannon; barrage. <DD> 2. heavy weapons; artillery; cannon. </DL> <A NAME="cannonshot"> cannon shot,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a cannonball or other projectile for a cannon. <DD> 2. the range of a cannon. </DL> <A NAME="cannot"> cannot, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> can not. expr. cannot but, cannot do otherwise than. Ex. I cannot but be gratified by the assurance (Thomas Jefferson). </DL> <A NAME="cannula"> cannula, noun, pl. -lae.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tubular instrument of any one of several types introduced into a body cavity or tube, especially to permit drainage or irrigation. Ex. During times when experiments are not being carried out on the animal, all electrodes and cannulae can be removed, leaving inconspicuous self-closing and self-healing skin lesions (Science). <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, canula. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="cannular"> cannular, adjective. =tubular.</DL> <A NAME="cannulate"> cannulate, adjective. =cannular.</DL> <A HREF="canny.dic">NEXT</A>