cany
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cany"
English
editEtymology
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editcany (comparative more cany, superlative most cany)
- Of or relating to cane (the plant) or canes.
- Abounding with canes.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Sericana , where Chineses drive
With sails and wind their cany waggons light
References
edit- “cany”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.