Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CA-NA'RY
CAN-A-LIC'U-LATE, or CAN-A-LIC'U-LA-TEDCA-NA'RY-BIRD
CA-NA'RY, n.
- Wine made in the Canary Isles.
- An old dance. Shakspeare has used the word as a verb in a kind of cant phrase.
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