Canmore or GREAT-HEAD, Malcolm III. of Scotland (1057-1093).—Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, i. 4.
Canning (George), statesman (1770-1827). Charles Lamb calls him:
St. Stephen's fool, the zany of debate.
Sonnet in "The Champion."
Cano´pos, Meneläos's pilot, killed in the return voyage from Troy by the bite of a serpent. The town Canöpos (Latin, Canopus) was built on the site where the pilot was buried.
Can´tab, a member of the University of Cambridge. The word is a contraction of the Latin Cantabrig´ia.
Can´tacuzene´ (4 syl.), a noble Greek family, which has furnished two emperors of Constantinople, and several princes of Moldavia and Wallachia. The family still survives.
We mean to show that the Cantacuzenês are
not the only princely family in the world.—D'Israeli,
Lothaire