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noun

Canary n. (pl. canaries)

1.

Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. "A cup of canary."

2.

A canary bird.

3.

A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.

4.

A quick and lively dance. (Obs.) "Make you dance canary With sprightly fire and motion."

verb

Canary v. i. To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. (Obs.) "But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet."

adjective

Canary adj.

1.

Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.

2.

Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.

Canary grass, a grass of the genus Phalaris (Phalaris Canariensis), producing the seed used as food for canary birds.

Canary stone (Min.), a yellow species of carnelian, named from its resemblance in color to the plumage of the canary bird.

Canary wood, the beautiful wood of the trees Persea Indica and Persea Canariensis, natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands.

Canary vine. See Canary bird flower, under Canary bird.

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Etymology of 'Canary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Canary" Quotes from Famous Books

... eh?" he observed. "Well, you might call a mackerel gull a canary bird, I presume likely, but 'twouldn't make the thing sing no better. That Elviry critter likes to make believe she's the Queen of Sheby. She wouldn't live in no home—no sir-ee! 'Cordin' to her the Fair Harbor ain't a home because they only take six or eight passengers, ...

— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... more. It was probably before they started that young Walter wheeled the corpulent poet of the Alchemist into his father's presence in a barrow, Ben Jonson being utterly overwhelmed with a beaker of that famed canary that he loved too well. Jonson, on his return from abroad, seems to have superintended the publication of the History of the World in 1614. A fine copy of verses, printed opposite the frontispiece of that volume, was reprinted among the pieces ...

— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse

... grandfather her pet bird. Her grandfather has the gout, and cannot walk. He has to keep his foot resting on a stool, and all the amusement he has, is derived from Lizzie and her pet bird. It is a Canary. She has a nice blue ribbon fastened to its foot so that it cannot fly away. It is eating a cherry from the hands of the old gentleman. The Canary bird is the most charming of all singing birds. They can be tamed and when so, are very playful and full ...

— The Girl's Cabinet of Instructive and Moral Stories • Uncle Philip

... San Francisco of that time. A heavy carpet covered the floor, the upholstery was of leather or tapestry, wall paper adorned the walls, a large table supported a bronze lamp and numerous books and papers, a canary, in a brass cage, hung in the sunshine of one of the windows, flitted from perch to perch, occasionally uttering a few liquid notes under ...

— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White

... often to Spanish Fort. We had a little canary. It was a beautiful singer. But one day my aunt left the door open when she cleaned the cage, and it flew away, and never has been found. I am ten years old, and I have been to England, ...

— Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

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