cannula (kanula)

[L. (ML. also canula ), dim. of canna, a reed, pipe: see canel.] 1. A small tube used by surgeons for various purposes, as for a sheath to a stylet or other sharp instrument, along with which it is thrust into a cavity or tumor containing a fluid. The perforation being made, the sharp instrument is withdrawn and the tube left, in order that the fluid may pa through it. Also canula. 2. Eccles., a cruet for use at the altar. See cruet. Bellocq's cannula, an instrument for plugging the posterior nares to stop bleeding from the nose. cannular (kan'ū-lär), a. [ cannulate (kan'ū-lāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. can nulated, ppr. cannulating. [ canny, cannie (kan'i), a. [Sc., of uncertain origin; popularly a ociated with can1, n., skill, knowledge, ability, and cunning1, knowing, and thus ult. with can1, v., know; but perhaps ult. due to Icel. kann (for kann, i. e., koenn ), wise, skilful, expert, clever, = AS. cene, bold, E. keen, sharp (cf. E. sharp in a similar sense): see keen1.] A term of commendation of various application. 1. Knowing; cautious; prudent; wary; watchful; cunning; artful; crafty. I trust in God to use the world as a canny and cunning master doth a knave servant. Rutherford , Letters. Whate'er he wins I'll guide with canny care. Ramsay . White-tail [deer] are very canny , and know perfectly well what threatens danger and what does not. T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 113. 2. Skilled; handy; expert. His wife was a cannie body, and could dre things very well for ane in her line o' busine . Scott , Old Mortality, v. 3. Moderate; reasonable. ( a ) In expense: Frugal; not extravagant. (b) In charges or exactions: Not extortionate. (c) In conduct: Not severe. 4. Quiet; easy; soft. (a) Quiet in disposition; gentle; tractable. (0) Quiet in movement; still; slow. I'll be her nurse, and I'll gang aboot on my stock in' soles as canny as pu y. Dr. John Brown , Rab and his Friends. IMG:content-3047.png:[blocks in formation] 5. Safe; not dangerous; fortunate; lucky.-6. Good; worthy.-7. Po e ed of supernatural power; skilled in magic. Canny Elshie, or the Wise Wight o' Muckelstane Moor. Scott , Black Dwarf, p. 39. canny, cannie (kan'i), adv. [Sc.] In a canny manner; cannily; cautiously; gently; slowly. Ye'll tak me in your arms twa, lo, lift me cannie . Bonnie Annie , in Child's Ballads, III. 48. Scott , Pirate, I. 66. IMG:content-3048.png:[blocks in formation] canow, canowe , orig. canoa ; = Pg. It. canoa = F. canot = D. kanoo = Sw. kanot = Dan. kano , canoa , candoa , the native West Indian (Carib) name.] I. n. A light boat designed to be propelled by a paddle or paddles held in the hands without fixed supports. The canoes of sav age races are constructed of bark (as the birch-bark canoe of the American Indians) or hides, or formed of the trunks of trees, excavated by burning or entting them into a suitable shape. The birch-bark canoes are light and can be carried on the shoulders, one large enough for four per IMG:content-3049.png:[blocks in formation] I encountered with two Canowes of Indians, who came aboord me. Capt . John Smith , Works (Arber), p. 10. To paddle one's own canoe, to make one's own way in life; depend upon one's own unaided exertions for succe . [Colloq.] II. a . Canoe-shaped. (a) Applied by Pennsylvania geologists to the mountains of that State whose structure gives them a resemblance in form to an Indian canoe. There are anticlinal and synclinal canoe mountains, the one being like the other inverted. (b) Applied in embryology to an early state of a vertebrate embryo, when it has acquired a definite long axis and bilaterally symmetrical sides curved in over the yolk-sac, as in man. canoe (ka-nö'), v. i.; pret. and pp. canoed, ppr. canoeing. [ sail in a canoe. canoe-birch (ka-nöʻbėrch), n. A tree, Betula pa pyrifera or papyracea, also known as the paper birch, and sometimes as the white birch, the tough durable bark of which is used for making canoes in North America by the Indians and others. The bark of the young trees is chalky white.