Definition of cane

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Cane (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.

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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.
Thornbill :: Thornbill (n.) Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane..
Platting :: Platting (n.) Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like..
Carcanet :: Carcanet (n.) A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar..
Undecane :: Undecane (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the methane series, found in petroleum; -- so called from its containing eleven carbon atoms in the molecule..
Flibustier :: Flibustier (n.) A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster.
Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Ferrule :: Ferrule (n.) A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing..
Tap :: Tap (v. t.) To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane..
Incanescent :: Incanescent (a.) Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.
Invertin :: Invertin (n.) An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.
Joint :: "Joint (n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg..
Rattoon :: Rattoon (v. i.) To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting..
Dunder :: Dunder (n.) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum..
Grugru Worm :: Grugru worm () The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy..
Hoary :: Hoary (a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent..
Kama :: Kama (n.) The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers..
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..
Glucose :: Glucose (n.) A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose..
Muscovado :: Muscovado (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, unrefined or raw sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses. Muscovado sugar contains impurities which render it dark colored and moist..
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