CONN
First name CONN's origin is Irish. CONN means "high: mighty". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CONN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of conn.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with CONN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CONN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CONN AS A WHOLE:
connla connal connie connacht connah connell conner connlaio connolly connor conny connlanNAMES RHYMING WITH CONN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (onn) - Names That Ends with onn:
caoilfhionn ceannfhionn mazonn fionn aodhfionn bairrfhionn devonn donn jayronn ronn shonn trevonn lonn eamonn strephonn jonnRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nn) - Names That Ends with nn:
fynn cynn corann tuireann caolabhuinn eachann labhruinn lachlann martainn addilynn adelynn aislinn aislynn alinn alynn angelynn annalynn aoibheann ashelynn ashlinn ashlynn avlynn bebhinn bethann brendalynn brilynn brooklynn brynn caitlinn caitlynn caoilfhinnn carolann carolynn carynn charlynn cherilynn chrysann crisann daelynn dalynn danylynn davynn deann deeann diahann doireann dyann edlynn elynn erynn evelynn geralynn gracelynn gwendalynn gwenn gwynn inghinn jacklynn jadalynn jaecilynn jaelynn jaimelynn jaslynn jaylynn jazlynn jazmynn jenalynn jennyann jerilynn jeslynn joann jonalynn jordynn josalynn joshlynn joycelynn jozzlynn kadalynn kaelynn kaitlinn kaitlynn kalynn katelynn kathrynnNAMES RHYMING WITH CONN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (con) - Names That Begins with con:
con conaire conal conall conan conant conary concepcion concepta concetta conchetta conchobar conchobara conchobarra conchobarre conchobhar condan condon condwiramurs congalie conlan conlaoch conleth conley conlin conor conrad conradin conradina conradine conrado conroy conshita consolacion consolata constance constancia constansie constanta constantia constantin constantino constanza consuela consuelo conway conyRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (co) - Names That Begins with co:
coatl coaxoch cobhan coburn coby cochava cocheta cochise cochlain cocidius coco cocytus codee codell codey codi codie codier codrin codruta cody codyr coeus cofahealh coghlan cohen coigleach coilin coillcumhann coilleach coinleain coinneach coira coire coireail colan colbert colbey colbi colby cole coleen coleman colemann colene colesha coleta coletta colette coletun coley colfre colierNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CONN:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'n':
cadan caden cadman cadmon cadwallon caedmon caedon caelan caerleon caerlion cailean cailen cailin caillen cailyn cain caitilin caitlan caitlin caitlyn caitrin calan calhoun caliburn calidan calin callaghan callahan camarin camaron camdan camden camdin camdyn camelon cameron cameryn camlann camren camron camryn camshron caoimhghin caolan caomhan caralyn carelton carilyn carlatun carleen carleton carlin carlson carlton carman carmen carmon carnation carolan carolin carolyn carrington carson carsten caryn casen cassian caswallan catalin catelyn catheryn cathleen cathlin cathryn catlin catlyn cavalon cavan cayden caylan ceallachan ceapmann ceastun ceawlin ceileachan cein celdtun celidon celyddon cendrillon cenon cercyon cerin cetewin chadburn chan chanan chann channon chapinEnglish Words Rhyming CONN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CONN AS A WHOLE:
aleconner | noun (n.) Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] |
chaconne | noun (n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations. |
conning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Con |
connascence | noun (n.) Alt. of Connascency |
connascency | noun (n.) The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together. |
noun (n.) That which is born or produced with another. | |
noun (n.) The act of growing together. |
connascent | adjective (a.) Born together; produced at the same time. |
connate | adjective (a.) Born with another; being of the same birth. |
adjective (a.) Congenital; existing from birth. | |
adjective (a.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate. |
connation | noun (n.) Connection by birth; natural union. |
connatural | adjective (a. ) Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. |
adjective (a. ) Partaking of the same nature. |
connaturality | noun (n.) Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. |
connaturalness | noun (n.) Participation of the same nature; natural union. |
connature | noun (n.) Participation in a common nature or character. |
connecting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Connect |
connection | noun (n.) The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. |
noun (n.) That which connects or joins together; bond; tie. | |
noun (n.) A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense. | |
noun (n.) The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection. |
connective | noun (n.) That which connects |
noun (n.) A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition. | |
noun (n.) That part of an anther which connects its thecae, lobes, or cells. | |
adjective (a.) Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. |
connector | noun (n.) One who, or that which, connects |
noun (n.) A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. | |
noun (n.) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact. |
conner | noun (n.) A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner. |
connexion | noun (n.) Connection. See Connection. |
connexive | adjective (a.) See Connective. |
conning tower | noun (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. |
connivance | noun (n.) Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation. |
noun (n.) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it. |
conniving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Connive |
connivency | noun (n.) Connivance. |
connivent | adjective (a.) Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. |
adjective (a.) Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc. |
conniver | noun (n.) One who connives. |
connoisseur | noun (n.) One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. |
connoisseurship | noun (n.) State of being a connoisseur. |
connotation | noun (n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted. |
connotative | adjective (a.) Implying something additional; illative. |
adjective (a.) Implying an attribute. See Connote. |
connoting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Connote |
connubial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial. |
connubiality | noun (n.) The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness. |
connumeration | noun (n.) A reckoning together. |
connusance | noun (n.) See Cognizance. |
connusant | adjective (a.) See Cognizant. |
connusor | noun (n.) See Cognizor. |
connutritious | adjective (a.) Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. |
conny | adjective (a.) Brave; fine; canny. |
disconnecting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disconnect |
disconnection | noun (n.) The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. |
inconnected | adjective (a.) Not connected; disconnected. |
inconnection | noun (n.) Disconnection. |
interconnection | noun (n.) Connection between; mutual connection. |
reconnoissance | noun (n.) Alt. of Reconnaissance |
reconnaissance | noun (n.) The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey. |
noun (n.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character. | |
noun (n.) An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work. | |
noun (n.) An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition. |
unconning | noun (n.) Ignorance. |
adjective (a.) Not knowing; ignorant. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CONN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (onn) - English Words That Ends with onn:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CONN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (con) - Words That Begins with con:
conacre | noun (n.) A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop. |
noun (n.) Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle. | |
verb (v. t.) To underlet a portion of, for a single crop; -- said of a farm. |
conarium | noun (n.) The pineal gland. |
conation | noun (n.) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. |
conative | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to conation. |
conatus | noun (n.) A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort. |
concameration | noun (n.) An arch or vault. |
noun (n.) A chamber of a multilocular shell. |
concatenating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concatenate |
concatenation | noun (n.) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. |
concause | noun (n.) A joint cause. |
concavation | noun (n.) The act of making concave. |
concave | noun (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess. |
noun (n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll. | |
adjective (a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. | |
adjective (a.) Hollow; void of contents. | |
verb (v. t.) To make hollow or concave. |
concaving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concave |
concaved | adjective (a.) Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Concave |
concaveness | noun (n.) Hollowness; concavity. |
concavity | noun (n.) A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave. |
concavous | adjective (a.) Concave. |
concealing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conceal |
concealable | adjective (a.) Capable of being concealed. |
concealed | adjective (a.) Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Conceal |
concealer | noun (n.) One who conceals. |
concealment | noun (n.) The act of concealing; the state of being concealed. |
noun (n.) A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation. | |
noun (n.) A secret; out of the way knowledge. | |
noun (n.) Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. |
conceding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concede |
conceit | noun (n.) That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. |
noun (n.) Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit. | |
noun (n.) Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. | |
noun (n.) A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip. | |
noun (n.) An overweening idea of one's self; vanity. | |
noun (n.) Design; pattern. | |
verb (v. t.) To conceive; to imagine. | |
verb (v. i.) To form an idea; to think. |
conceited | adjective (a.) Endowed with fancy or imagination. |
adjective (a.) Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain. | |
adjective (a.) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. |
conceitedness | noun (n.) The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. |
conceitless | adjective (a.) Without wit; stupid. |
conceivable | adjective (a.) Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood. |
conceiving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conceive |
conceiver | noun (n.) One who conceives. |
concent | noun (n.) Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes. |
noun (n.) Consistency; accordance. |
concentering | noun (p. pr & vb. n.) of Concentre |
concentrating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concentrate |
concentration | noun (n.) The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration. |
noun (n.) The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation. | |
noun (n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water. |
concentrative | adjective (a.) Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration. |
concentrativeness | noun (n.) The quality of concentrating. |
noun (n.) The faculty or propensity which has to do with concentrating the intellectual the intellectual powers. |
concentrator | noun (n.) An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. |
noun (n.) A frame or ring of wire or hard paper fitting into the cartridge case used in some shotguns, and holding the shot together when discharged, to secure close shooting; also, a device for slightly narrowing the bore at the muzzle for the same purpose. |
concentric | noun (n.) That which has a common center with something else. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Concentrical |
concentrical | adjective (a.) Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another. |
concentricity | noun (n.) The state of being concentric. |
concentual | adjective (a.) Possessing harmony; accordant. |
concept | noun (n.) An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal. |
conceptacle | noun (n.) That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. |
noun (n.) A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles. | |
noun (n.) One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae. |
conceptibility | noun (n.) The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. |
conceptible | adjective (a.) Capable of being conceived; conceivable. |
conception | noun (n.) The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life. |
noun (n.) The state of being conceived; beginning. | |
noun (n.) The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception. | |
noun (n.) The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension. | |
noun (n.) The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept. | |
noun (n.) Idea; purpose; design. | |
noun (n.) Conceit; affected sentiment or thought. |
conceptional | adjective (a.) Pertaining to conception. |
conceptionalist | noun (n.) A conceptualist. |
conceptious | adjective (a.) Apt to conceive; fruitful. |
conceptive | adjective (a.) Capable of conceiving. |
conceptual | adjective (a.) Pertaining to conception. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CONN:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'n':
cabezon | noun (n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin. |
cabin | noun (n.) A cottage or small house; a hut. |
noun (n.) A small room; an inclosed place. | |
noun (n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers. | |
verb (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge. | |
verb (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin. |
cabirean | noun (n.) One of the Cabiri. |
cabirian | adjective (a.) Same as Cabiric. |
cabman | noun (n.) The driver of a cab. |
caburn | noun (n.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc. |
cachinnation | noun (n.) Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. |
cacodemon | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil or demon. |
noun (n.) The nightmare. |
cacoon | noun (n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc. |
cadmean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters. |
cadmian | adjective (a.) See Cadmean. |
caducean | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand. |
caecilian | noun (n.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha. |
caesarean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Caesarian |
caesarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars; imperial. |
caftan | noun (n.) A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash. |
verb (v. t.) To clothe with a caftan. |
caiman | noun (n.) See Cayman. |
cairn | noun (n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. |
noun (n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. |
caisson | noun (n.) A chest to hold ammunition. |
noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. | |
noun (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. | |
noun (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. | |
noun (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. | |
noun (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. | |
noun (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. |
calamistration | noun (n.) The act or process of curling the hair. |
calcedon | noun (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones. |
calcedonian | adjective (a.) See Chalcedonic. |
calcification | noun (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue. |
calcination | noun (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime. |
noun (n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation. |
calcitration | noun (n.) Act of kicking. |
calculation | noun (n.) The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. |
noun (n.) An expectation based on circumstances. |
caldron | noun (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] |
caledonian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Caledonia or Scotland. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch. |
calefaction | noun (n.) The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies. |
noun (n.) The state of being heated. |
calendulin | noun (n.) A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin. |
calfskin | noun (n.) The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin. |
calibration | noun (n.) The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument. |
californian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of California. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to California. |
caligation | noun (n.) Dimness; cloudiness. |
calin | noun (n.) An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters. |
calkin | noun (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1. |
callisection | noun (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. |
callithumpian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. |
callosan | adjective (a.) Of the callosum. |
calorification | noun (n.) Production of heat, esp. animal heat. |
calumbin | noun (n.) A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root. |
calumniation | noun (n.) False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. |
calyon | noun (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. |
cambrian | noun (n.) A native of Cambria or Wales. |
noun (n.) The Cambrian formation. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology. |
cameleon | noun (n.) See Chaceleon. |
cameration | noun (n.) A vaulting or arching over. |
cameronian | noun (n.) A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II. |
campaign | noun (n.) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. |
noun (n.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field. | |
noun (n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass. | |
noun (n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation. | |
verb (v. i.) To serve in a campaign. |
campanularian | noun (n.) A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae. |
campestrian | adjective (a.) Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground. |
camphogen | noun (n.) See Cymene. |
campion | noun (n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. |
can | noun (n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids. |
noun (n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can. | |
verb (v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To know; to understand. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to. | |
() an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.] |
canadian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Canada. |
canakin | noun (n.) A little can or cup. |
canalization | noun (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. |
cancan | noun (n.) A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures. |
cancellarean | adjective (a.) Cancellarean. |
cancellation | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. |
noun (n.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. |
canceration | noun (n.) The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer. |
cannabin | noun (n.) A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin. |
cannikin | noun (n.) A small can or drinking vessel. |
cannon | noun (n.) A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. |
noun (n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. | |
noun (n.) A kind of type. See Canon. | |
noun (n. & v.) See Carom. | |
verb (v. i.) To discharge cannon. | |
verb (v. i.) To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound. | |
(pl. ) of Cannon |
canoeman | noun (n.) One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe. |
canon | noun (n.) A law or rule. |
noun (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. | |
noun (n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a. | |
noun (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. | |
noun (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. | |
noun (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. | |
noun (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation. | |
noun (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. | |
noun (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank. | |
noun (n.) See Carom. |
ca–on | noun (n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. |
canonization | noun (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. |
noun (n.) The state of being canonized or sainted. |
cantabrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain. |
cantabrigian | noun (n.) A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England. |
cantation | noun (n.) A singing. |
canteen | noun (n.) A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. |
noun (n.) The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers. |
cantharidin | noun (n.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms. |
cantillation | noun (n.) A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations. |
cantion | noun (n.) A song or verses. |
canton | noun (n.) A song or canto |
noun (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment. | |
noun (n.) A small community or clan. | |
noun (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement. | |
noun (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. | |
verb (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. | |
verb (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. |
cantoon | noun (n.) A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other. |
canyon | noun (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca–on. |
caoutchin | noun (n.) An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc. |
caoutchoucin | noun (n.) See Caoutchin. |
caparison | noun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. |
noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. | |
verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress. |
capelan | noun (n.) See Capelin. |
capelin | noun (n.) A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. |
capillation | noun (n.) A capillary blood vessel. |
capitalization | noun (n.) The act or process of capitalizing. |
capitation | noun (n.) A numbering of heads or individuals. |
noun (n.) A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax. |
capitolian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Capitoline |
capitulation | noun (n.) A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. |
noun (n.) The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms. | |
noun (n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender. |
caplin | noun (n.) See Capelin. |
noun (n.) Alt. of Capling |
capon | noun (n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. |
verb (v. t.) To castrate; to make a capon of. |
capricorn | noun (n.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. |
noun (n.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish. |
caprification | noun (n.) The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects. |
capsaicin | noun (n.) A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity. |
capsicin | noun (n.) A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum. |
capstan | noun (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. |
captain | noun (n.) A head, or chief officer |
noun (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service. | |
noun (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army. | |
noun (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain. | |
noun (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel. | |
noun (n.) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc. | |
noun (n.) The foreman of a body of workmen. | |
noun (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team. | |
noun (n.) A military leader; a warrior. | |
adjective (a.) Chief; superior. | |
verb (v. t.) To act as captain of; to lead. |
captation | noun (n.) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction. |
caption | noun (n.) A caviling; a sophism. |
noun (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. | |
noun (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed. | |
noun (n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page. |
captivation | noun (n.) The act of captivating. |
capuchin | noun (n.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. |
noun (n.) A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. | |
noun (n.) A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai. | |
noun (n.) Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella. | |
noun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck. |
capulin | noun (n.) The Mexican cherry (Prunus Capollin). |