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Show C&8 It would certainly be for the good of mankind to have all the mighty empires and monarchie of the world cantoned out into petty ftates an principalities Addifon on Italy The late king of Spain, reckoning it an indignity to have his territories cantoned out int parcels by other princes, during his own life, an without his confent, rather chofe to bequeath th monarchy entire toa younger fon of France. Szvift They canton out to themfelves a little provinc ‘in the intelle€tual world wher the fanc th "light fhines, and all the reft is in darkuefs Watts on the Mind o CA'NTONIZE, @. a. [from canton.] T _parcel out into fmall divifions Thus was all Ireland castonized among ten perfops of the Englifh nation Th whol Dawies on Ireland foreft was in a manner cantonize amangfta very few in number, of whom fome ha regal rights CA'NTRED. 7. /. The fame in Wales a an hundred in England For cantre, i t the Britith language, fignifieth an hun n dred Cowell The king regrants to him all that province referving only the city of Dublin, and the cantred next adjoining, with the maritime towns CA'NVASS Dawies on Ireland ». / [canevas, Fr. cannabis Lat. hemp. 1. Akind of linen cloth woven for fevera - aifes, as fails, painting cloths, tents i The mafter commande b Spenfer "Their canvafs cattles up they quickly rear And build a city in an hour's fpace Fairfax Where'er thy navy fpreads her canvafs wings Homage to thee, and peace to all, fhe brings Wit 4 forthwith to fet on al the canwafs they could, and fly homeward. § idney And eke the pens, that did his pinions bind Were like main yards with flying canvafs lin'd Hoqvel fuch kind paffion hafte Waller the prince t fight And fpreads his flying canwafs to the found Him whom no danger, were he there, could fright Now abfent, every little noife can wound. Dryden Thou, Kneller, long with noble pride The foremoft of thy art, haft vie With nature in a generous ftrife And touch'd the canwafs into life 2. Th adt of fifting voices Addifon or tryin to tr votes previoufly to the decifive aét Elizabeth being to refolve upon an officer, an being, by fome that canvaffed for others, put i fome doubt of that perfon fhe meant to advance faid, fhe was like one with a lanthorn feeking man Bacon This crime of canvaffing, or foliciting, for churc preferment, is, by the canon law, called fimony Ayliffe's Parergon Ca'wy. adj. [from cane. can be thus kept up, there being little need of an other faculty but memory, to be able to cap texts Government of the Tongues There is an author of ours, whom I would defir him to read, before he ventures at capping characters Atterbury Car a pe Car a pie [cap & pig, Fr.] Fro to foot; all over A figure like your father Arm'd at all points exaétly, cap a pe Appears before them, and, with folemn march 1. Full of canes Goes flow and ftately by them Shaksfp. Hamlet There for the two contending knights he fent 2. Confifting of canes But in his way lights on the barren plain Arm'd capa pi¢, with rev'rence low they bent Of Sericana, where Chinefes drive Dtydc‘fi With fails and wind, their cany waggons light ilton Ca'NZONET little fong #. / hea [canzonetta Ital. Vecchi was moft pleafing of all others for hi conceit and variety, as well his madrigals as caznRonets Peacham CAP. # [ [cap. Welhh; czppe, Sax cappe, Germ. cappe, Fr. cappa, Ital capa, Span. ‘kappe, Dan, and Dutch caput, a head, Latin. 1. The garment that covers the head Here is the cap your worfhip did befpeak. ~-Why, this was moulded on a porringer A velvet dith Shakefpeare's Taming the Shrezv I have ever held my cap off to thy fortune. =Thou haft ferv'd me with much faith Shak Firft, lolling floth in woollen cap Taking her after-dinner aap Savift The cap, the whip, the mafculine attire For which they roughen to the fenfe Thomfor's Autumn 2. The enfign of the cardinalate Henry the Fifth did fometimes prophefy If once he came to be a cardinal He'd make his cap coequal with the crown Shakefpeare's Henry V1 3. The topmoft; the higheft Thou art the cap of all the fools alive Shakefpeare's Timon 4. A reverence made by uncovering th head They more and lefs came in with cap and knee Met him in boroughs, cities, villages A woodloufe That folds up itfelf in itfelf for a houfe As round as a ball, without head, without taif Inclos'd cap a peé in a firong coat of mail ‘Sevifz Car-raPErR A fort of coarfe brownif paper. So called from being forme into a kind of cap to hold commodities Having, for trial fake, filtered it through cap paper, there remained in the filtre a powder. Boyle Carasi'LiTy. 7 /. [from capable.] Capacity; the quality of being capable Sure he that made us witlh fuch large difcourfe Looking before and after, gave us no That capability and godlike reafo To ruft in us unus'd CA'PABLE. adj. [capable, Fr. Shakefpeare 1. Sufficient to contain ; fufficiently capa cious When we confider fo much of that fpace, as i equal to, or capable to receive a body of any affigne dimenfions Locke 2. Endued with powers equal to any particular thing To fay, that the more capable, or the bette deferver, hath fuch right to govern, as he ma compulforily bring under the lefs worthy, is idle Bacon When you hear any perfon give his judgment confider with yourfelf whether he be a capabl judge Watts 3. Intelligent; able to underftand Look you, how pale he glares His form and caufe conjoin'd, preaching to ftones Would make them capable. Shakefpeare's Hamlet Shakefpear's Henry 1V Should the want of a cap or a cringe fo mortally difcompofe him, as we find afterwards i did L''Eftrange 4. Intellectuall ceive It is obferved, that a barrel or cap, whofe cavity will contain eight cubical feet of air, wil not ferve a diyer above a quarter of an hOUIr/ 5. Sufceptible "5. A veflel made like a cap capacious ; abl to re I am much bound to God, that he hath endue you with one capable of the beft inftructions Dighy The foul, immortal fubftance, to remai Confcious of joy, and capable of pain Prior them previoufly to the decifive aét o Wil ins 6. H Qualified for; without any natural im voting. [from canwvafs, as it fignifies a 6. Cap of a great gun. A piece o lea pe im nt fieve. laid over the touch-hole, to preferve th There is no man that believes the goodnefs o There be that can pack cards, and yet canno + play well : fo there are fome that are good in canwdffés and fations, that are otherwife weak men Bacon To Ca'Nvass. . a..[Skinner derives i - fiom cannabaffer, Fr. to beat hemp wihich being a wery laborions employment it is ufe to fignify diligently into. To fift; to examine X a ftraining cloth. I have mad [fro to fearc 7. Cap of maintenance. One of the regali carried before the king at the coronation To Car. v. a. [from the noun. 1. To cover on the top The bones next the joint are capped with fmooth cartilaginous fubitance, ferving both t ftrength and motion Lerbani canvafs, 12. To deprive o the cap careful fearch on all .hands canvaffed the matter with all poffible diligence 2 Todebate; to difenfs .The curs d prime and o fcovered a raw hide in the botto of ariver, and laid their heads together h w t ~&ome at it; they canvaffid the matter one way an If one, by another occafion, take any thing fro another, as boys fometimes ufe to cap one another the fame is firaight felony Spenfer-on Ireland 3. 90 cap werfes. 'To mame alternatel verfes beginning with a particular letter ; to name in oppofition or emulation ; 0 name alternately in conteft Locke folicit God mad but muft be inclined to think, that he hat fome things for as long a duration as the are capable of illotfon 7. Qualified for ; without legal impediment Of my land Loyal and natural boy ! I'll work the mean To make thee capable Skaksfpeare's King Lear 8. It has the particle of before a noun What fecret fprings their eager paffions move How capable of death for injur'd tove | Dryd. Firg 9. Hollow e RT «felves T Families fhall quit all fubjeétion to him, an canton ‘his empire into lefs govemments for the .z divide into little parts T0 Ca'Nvass L Efirange TR o Ca'nTON. . a. [from the noun.] T to drink their way to it Where Henderfon, and th" other maffes Were fent to cap texts, and put cafes Hudibras Sure it is a pitiful pretence to ingenuity tha Bacon's Holy War t'other, and concluded, that the way to get it, wa This {enfe is not now in ufe Lean but upon a ruth The cicatrice, and capable impreflure Thy palm fome moments keeps. Shak. As you like if CaA'PABLENESS, 7./. [from capable.] Th quality or ftate of being capable; knowledge ; underftanding ; power of mind CAPA'CIOUS 1 30 s WNATI . mme-yet, are fome cantons in Arabia, and fome pett "kings of the mountains adjacent to ftraits and ways / CA |