Defn: A musical composition in which the voice begin one after another, at regular intervals, succesively 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.
8. (Print.)
Defn: The largest size of type having a specific name; — so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; — called also ear and shank.
Note: [See Illust. of Bell.] Knight.
10. (Billiards)
Defn: See Carom. Apostolical canons. See under Apostolical.
— Augustinian canons, Black canons. See under Augustinian.
— Canon capitular, Canon residentiary, a resident member of a
cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year).
— Canon law. See under Law.
— Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following
the Sanctus, which never changes.
— Honorary canon, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor
kept the canonical hours.
— Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a
chapter, but has not yet received a prebend.
— Regular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual
community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon.
— Secular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery,
but kept the hours.
CANON; CANYON Ca*ñon", n. Etym: [Sp., a tube or hollow, fr. caña reed, fr. L. canna. See Cane.]
Defn: A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]
CANON BIT
Can"on bit`. Etym: [F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule.]