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Cane (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

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Pentadecatoic :: Pentadecatoic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, pentadecane, or designating an acid related to it..
Arcane :: Arcane (a.) Hidden; secret.
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..
Articulation :: Articulation (n.) One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc..
Canella :: Canella (n.) A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the West Indies..
Saccharin :: Saccharin (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).
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..
Reed :: Reed (n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube..
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..
Sacchariferous :: Sacchariferous (a.) Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes..
Chicane :: Chicane (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry..
Ferulaceous :: Ferulaceous (a.) Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants..
Texas :: Texas (n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc..
Dextrose :: Dextrose (n.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice..
Freebooter :: Freebooter (n.) One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
Hexadecane :: Hexadecane (n.) See Hecdecane.
Calcaneal :: Calcaneal (a.) Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries..
Cane :: Cane (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry..
Buccaneer :: Buccaneer (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Dunder :: Dunder (n.) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum..
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