Cane

Webster's Dictionary

 (1): (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.

 (2): (n.) A lance or dart made of cane.

 (3): (v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

 (4): (n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

 (5): (n.) A walking stick; a staff; - so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

 (6): (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.

 (7): (v. t.) To beat with a cane.

 (8): (n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

King James Dictionary

CANE, n.

1. In botany, this term is applied to several species of plants belonging to several species of plants belonging to different genera, such as Arundo, Calamus, Saccharum, &c. Among these is the bamboo of the East Indies, with a strong stem, which serves for pipes, poles, and walking sticks. The sugar cane, a native of Asia, Africa and America, furnishes the juice from which are made, sugar, melasses and spirit. See Sugar Cane. 2. A walking stick. 3. A long measure, in several countries of Europe at Naples, the length  Isaiah 7 feet 3 inches in Thoulouse in France, 5 feet 8 inches in Provence, &c., 6 feet 5 inches.

CANE, To beat with a cane or walking stick.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Isaiah 43:24 Jeremiah 6:20 Kaneh   1 Kings 14:15 Job 40:21 Isaiah 19:6 35:7 Psalm 68:30  2 Kings 18:21 Isaiah 36:6 Ezekiel 29:6,7Calamus

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Or CALAMUS, SWEET, Song of  Song of Solomon 4:14 , an aromatic reed mentioned among the drugs of which the sacred perfumes were compounded,  Exodus 30:23 . The true odoriferous calamus or grass came from India; and the prophets speak of it as a foreign commodity of great value,  Isaiah 43:24   Jeremiah 6:20   Ezekiel 27:19 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

 Cane.  See Reed .

Holman Bible Dictionary

Calamus

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

CANE . See Reed.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

 

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 Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Cane'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/cane.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Cane (or Calamus), Sweet, an aromatic reed, mentioned among the drugs with which sacred perfumes were compounded (). [REED]