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can(1) (iou)



can noun. [kan]
[Old English canne, corresp. to Middle Dutch kanne (Dutch kan), Old High German channa (German kanne), Old Norse kanna, ult. Germanic or from late Latin canna.]
A vessel for holding liquids, now spec. one of metal, and usu. cylindrical with a handle over the top. Also (chiefly N. Amer.), any large cylindrical metal container, a bin. OE.
ashcan, jerrycan, oil can, watering-can, etc.
Wordsworth I have brought thee in this can fresh water from the brook.
b. A measure of capacity; about a gallon. Scot. E19.
A (usu. cylindrical) container of tin plate or aluminium in which Food, drink, etc., can be hermetically sealed; (such a container and) its contents. Cf. TIN noun 2. M19.
J. B. Priestley We sat in the office, with a can of beer each.
a. A chimney pot. Chiefly Scot. M19.
b. A lavatory. N. Amer. slang. E20.
c. the can, jail. slang (chiefly US). E20.
d. The buttocks. N. Amer. slang. M20.
e. A protective jacket for a nuclear fuel rod. M20.
f. In pl. Headphones. slang. L20.
Phrases: can of worms: see WORM noun. carry the can (back) slang bear the responsibility or blame. in the can safely recorded on Film, tape, etc., completed. take the can (back) slang = carry the can (back) above. tie a can on, tie a can to: see TIE verb1.
Comb.: can bank a collection point to which empty cans may be taken for recycling; can-buoy a large cone-shaped marker buoy; can-dock a water lily, esp. of the yellow-flowered species; can-opener a tool for opening cans of Food etc.
canful noun as much or as many as a can will hold, the contents of a can E18.

Basel, Council of (sh)




(1431-49) Council of the Roman Catholic church held in Basel, Switz.

It addressed the question of ultimate authority in the church and the problem of the Hussite heresy. Its members renewed the decree Sacrosancta (issued by the Council of Constance), which declared the council's authority to be greater than the pope's, and voted to receive most Hussites back into the church on terms opposed by the pope. In 1437 Pope Eugenius IV transferred the council to Ferrara to negotiate reunion with the Orthodox church more effectively, but several members remained in Basel as a rump council and declared Eugenius deposed. They then elected a new pope, Felix V, and the renewed schism cost the council its prestige and popular support. On the death of Eugenius, his successor, Nicholas V, obliged the antipope Felix to abdicate, ended the rump council, and brought the conciliar movement to a close.