Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAN'ON-RY, or CAN'ON-SHIP, n.

An ecclesiastical benefice, in a cathedral or collegiate church, which has a prebend or stated allowance out of the revenues of the church commonly annexed to it. The benefice filled by a canon. A prebend may subsist without a canonry; but a canonicate is inseparable from a prebend. – Ayliffe. Encyc.