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Webster 1913 Edition


Cancelli

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Can-cel′li

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Noun.
pl.
[L., a lattice. See
Cancel
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Verb.
T.
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1.
An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.
2.
(Anat.)
The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.