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Canes
(gcide) | Canis \Ca"nis\ (k[a^]"n[i^]s), n.; pl. Canes (-n[=e]z). [L., a
dog.] (Zool.)
A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canid[ae],
including the dogs and wolves.
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Canis major [L., larger dog], a constellation to the
southeast of Orion, containing Sirius or the Dog Star.
Canis minor [L., smaller dog], a constellation to the east
of Orion, containing Procyon, a star of the first
magnitude.
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dodecanese
(encz) | Dodecanese, |
Amorpha canescens
(gcide) | Lead \Lead\ (l[e^]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le['a]d; akin
to D. lood, MHG. l[=o]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead,
small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123.]
1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic
metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily
tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with
little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets,
etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible
(melting point 327.5[deg] C), forms alloys with other
metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal.
Atomic number 82. Atomic weight, 207.2. Symbol Pb (L.
Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena,
lead sulphide.
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2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as:
(a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.
(b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate
lines of type in printing.
(c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs;
hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne
plates.
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I would have the tower two stories, and goodly
leads upon the top. --Bacon
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3. A small cylinder of black lead or graphite, used in
pencils.
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Black lead, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its
leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.]
Coasting lead, a sounding lead intermediate in weight
between a hand lead and deep-sea lead.
Deep-sea lead, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in
water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
Hand lead, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water.
Krems lead, Kremnitz lead [so called from Krems or
Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead,
formed into tablets, and called also Krems white, or
Kremnitz white, and Vienna white.
Lead arming, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead.
See To arm the lead (below).
Lead colic. See under Colic.
Lead color, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead.
Lead glance. (Min.) Same as Galena.
Lead line
(a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a
deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning.
(b) (Naut.) A sounding line.
Lead mill, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries.
Lead ocher (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead.
Same as Massicot.
Lead pencil, a pencil of which the marking material is
graphite (black lead).
Lead plant (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus Amorpha
(Amorpha canescens), found in the Northwestern United
States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead
ore. --Gray.
Lead tree.
(a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous
tree, Leuc[ae]na glauca; -- probably so called from
the glaucous color of the foliage.
(b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a
solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip
of zinc in lead acetate.
Mock lead, a miner's term for blende.
Red lead, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder,
consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing
several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or
cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass.
Red lead ore (Min.), crocoite.
Sugar of lead, acetate of lead.
To arm the lead, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a
sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature
of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
To cast the lead, or To heave the lead, to cast the
sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water.
White lead, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a
white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of
white paint.
[1913 Webster]leadplant \leadplant\ n.
A shrub (Amorpha canescens) of sandy woodlands and
streambanks of the Western U. S. having hoary pinnate flowers
and dull-colored racemose flowers; it is thought to indicate
the presence of lead ore.
Syn: lead plant, Amorpha canescens.
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Aracanese
(gcide) | Aracanese \Ar`a*ca*nese"\, a.
Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah. --
n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Aracan.
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Canescent
(gcide) | Canescent \Ca*nes"cent\, a. [L. canescens, p. pr. of canescere,
v. inchoative of canere to be white.]
Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
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Incanescent
(gcide) | Incanescent \In`ca*nes"cent\, a. [L. incanescens, p. pr.
incanescere to become gray.]
Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.
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Lithospermum canescens
(gcide) | Puccoon \Puc*coon"\, n. [From the American Indian name.] (Bot.)
Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is
used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two
species of Lithospermum (Lithospermum hirtum, and
Lithospermum canescens); also, the pigment itself.
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Sisymbrium canescens
(gcide) | Tansy \Tan"sy\, n. [OE. tansaye, F. tanaise; cf. It. & Sp.
tanaceto, NL. tanacetum, Pg. atanasia, athanasia, Gr.
'aqanasi`a immortality, fr. 'aqa`natos immortal; 'a priv. +
qa`natos death.]
1. (Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum. The
common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) has finely divided
leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste.
It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes.
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2. A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs,
sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked
with butter in a shallow dish. [Obs.] --Pepys.
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Double tansy (Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the
leaves more dissected than usual.
Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant (Sisymbrium canescens) of
the Mustard family, with tansylike leaves.
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Totanus canescens
(gcide) | Greenshank \Green"shank`\, n. (Zool.)
A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); --
called also greater plover.
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amorpha canescens
(wn) | Amorpha canescens
n 1: shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United
States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored
racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead
ore [syn: leadplant, lead plant, Amorpha canescens] |
canescent
(wn) | canescent
adj 1: of greyish white; "the canescent moon"
2: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent,
hoary] |
dodecanese
(wn) | Dodecanese
n 1: a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea [syn:
Dodecanese, Dhodhekanisos] |
gerea canescens
(wn) | Gerea canescens
n 1: slender hairy plant with few leaves and golden-yellow
flower heads; sandy desert areas of southeastern California
to southwestern Utah and western Arizona and northwestern
Mexico [syn: desert sunflower, Gerea canescens] |
lithospermum canescens
(wn) | Lithospermum canescens
n 1: perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage
yielding a red or yellow pigment [syn: hoary puccoon,
Indian paint, Lithospermum canescens] |
populus canescens
(wn) | Populus canescens
n 1: large rapidly growing poplar with faintly lobed dentate
leaves grey on the lower surface; native to Europe but
introduced and naturalized elsewhere [syn: grey poplar,
gray poplar, Populus canescens] |
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