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Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenienc

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages..

Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name..

Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses..

Circumduction :: Circumduction (n.) An annulling; cancellation.

Cancelled :: Cancelled () of Cance.

Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out..

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

Canceling :: Canceling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cance.

Cancellous :: Cancellous (a.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones..

Indelible :: Indelible (a.) That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory..

Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like..

Cancelli :: Cancelli (v. t.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities..

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate..

Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) The part thus suppressed.

Diploe :: Diploe (n.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull..

Cancellarean :: Cancellarean (a.) Cancellarean.

Cancellated :: Cancellated (a.) Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.

Countermand :: Countermand (v. t.) To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods..

Cancellation :: Cancellation (n.) The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself..

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