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Canis  n.  (pl. canes)  (Zool.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves.
Canis major, a constellation to the southeast of Orion, containing Sirius or the Dog Star.
Canis minor, a constellation to the east of Orion, containing Procyon, a star of the first magnitude.






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... concessam omnibus indicat. Maclennan (287) cites G.S. Lang, who cites the fact that the old men get most of the young women. Connubium profecto valde est liberum. Conjuges, puellae, puellulae cum adolescentibus venantur. Pretium corporis poene nullius est. Vendunt se vel columbae vel canis vel piscis pretio. Inter ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... stony, scrubby, and barren, and this in my former remarks any one who runs can read. I saw very few living creatures, but it is occasionally visited by its native owners, to whom I do not grudge the possession of it. Occasionally the howls of the native dog (Canis familiaris)—or dingo as he is usually called—were heard, and their footprints in sandy places seen. A small species of kangaroo, known as the scrub wallaby, were sometimes seen, and startled from their pursuit of nibbling at the roots of plants, upon which they exist; but the scrubs being so ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles

... "Hic amor dici potest amor cati et canis," Chron. Limov., in Recueil des Hist. de ...
— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout

... found them, where Sabhall-Patrick is to-day. When he saw the divines and the clerics, he thought they were robbers or thieves, and he went to tell his lord; whereupon Dichu came, and set his dog at the clerics. Then it was that Patrick uttered the prophetic verse, "Ne tradas bestis, etc., et canis obmutuit." When Dichu saw Patrick, he became gentle, and he believed, and Patrick baptized him; so that he was the first in Ulster who received faith and baptism from Patrick. Then it was that Dichu presented the Sabhall to Patrick. ...
— The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick - Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings • Various

... Canis Magnus, cum eidem a Caesare Ludovico Bavaro idem privilegium confirmatum esset, totum scutum Aquila occupavit, subjecta Alitis ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 • Various



Words linked to "Canis" :   family Canidae, Canis Minor, Ctenocephalides canis, Canis familiaris, Canis lupus tundrarum, wolf, Mustelus canis, dog, genus Canis, mammal genus, Canis latrans, Canidae, Canis rufus, jackal, Canis aureus, Canis dingo, Canis Major, Canis niger



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