Definition of cane

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Cane (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

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Incanescent :: Incanescent (a.) Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.
Endecane :: Endecane (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum..
Calcaneum :: Calcaneum (n.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare..
Cane :: Cane (v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs..
Tetradecane :: Tetradecane (n.) A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule..
Filibuster :: Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855..
Rattoon :: Rattoon (v. i.) To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting..
Sorghum :: Sorghum (n.) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane..
Balance :: Balance (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope..
Hypotarsus :: Hypotarsus (n.) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.
Hexadecane :: Hexadecane (n.) See Hecdecane.
Blowgun :: Blowgun (n.) A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan..
Canella :: Canella (n.) A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the West Indies..
Wanghee :: Wanghee (n.) The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks..
Arundinaceous :: Arundinaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.
Ratoon :: Ratoon (n.) A rattan cane.
Cane :: Cane (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry..
Granulate :: Granulate (v. i.) To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar..
Buccaneer :: Buccaneer (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Canebrake :: Canebrake (n.) A thicket of canes.
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