Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannach
Literary usage of Cannach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"CANNA DOWN, cannach, Cotton grass, Eriophorum vaginatum, Linn; " cannach is the
Gaelic name of a plant common in moory ground, without leaf or lateral ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Canna-down, or cannach. ... vaginatum, L. — Gael. cannach. Jamieson. Canterbury Bell.
(1) The common garden name for Campanula medium, L. ' Of some about ..."
3. The Architecture of Birds by James Rennie (1833)
"Grahame is correct in saying it uses the down of willows and cannach (Eriophorum
... with willow down inlaid, And cannach tufta, his wonderful abode. ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson by John Jamieson (1818)
"CANNA DOWN, cannach, s. ... S. Gael, cannach, id. Grant. CANNA, CANNAE, cannot;
compounded of can, v., ..."
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