These are the meanings of the letters CANVUE when you unscramble them.
- Acne (n.)
A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.
- Cane (n.)
A lance or dart made of cane.
- Cane (n.)
A local European measure of length. See Canna.
- Cane (n.)
A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
- Cane (n.)
A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
- Cane (n.)
Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
- Cane (n.)
Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
- Cane (v. t.)
To beat with a cane.
- Cane (v. t.)
To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
- Cave (n.)
A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
- Cave (n.)
Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
- Cave (n.)
To make hollow; to scoop out.
- Cave (v. i.)
To dwell in a cave.
- Cave (v. i.)
To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
- Nave (n.)
The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.
- Nave (n.)
The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.
- Nave (n.)
The navel.
- Uvea (n.)
The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat.
- Vane (n.)
A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
- Vane (n.)
Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
- Vane (n.)
One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
- Vane (n.)
The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
- Vena (n.)
A vein.