A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.

(phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay. / A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease. / A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.

(transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. / (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt. / (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.

Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.

(Scotland, Cumbria, Jamaica) Contraction of can not; cannot.

(historical) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.

The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

(uncountable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup. / (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on. / (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.