*anny*

{ } a. [ Cf. Icel. kenn skilled, learned, or E. canny. Cf. Kenn. ] [ North of Eng. & Scot. ] 1. Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Skillful; knowing; capable. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cautious; prudent; safe.. Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Reputed to have magical powers. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

No canny, not safe, not fortunate; unpropitious. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Crannies [ F. cran notch, prob. from L. crena (a doubful word). ] 1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Glass Making) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Crannied p. pr. & vb. n. Crannying. ] 1. To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To haunt, or enter by, crannies. [ 1913 Webster ]

All tenantless, save to the crannying wind. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Perh. for cranky. See Crank, a. ] Quick; giddy; thoughtless. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Granny's bend, or
Granny's knot (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An informal social gathering or concert featuring mostly folk songs, sometimes dancing, and where the audience often participates in the singing. [ PJC ]

2. Same as whatchamacallit; a thingumbob. [ Obsolescent, chiefly dial. ] [ PJC ]

n.; pl. nannies. 1. a caretaker for a child; a child's nurse; a nursemaid. [ PJC ]

2. Grandmother; -- a child's word, used especially as a form of address. See also nana. [ PJC ]

n. 1. A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nanny goat, a female goat. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Sheepberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Psycho- + Gr. &unr_; to spend all night long; pa^s, pa^n, all + &unr_; night. ] (Theol.) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. -- Psy`cho*pan"ny*chism n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. araneus mus, a kind of small mouse. ] (Zool.) The erd shrew. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The sandpiper. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Scrannel. ] Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Shannies [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zool.) The European smooth blenny (Blennius pholis). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) See Stannel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. tirannye, OF. tirannie, F. tyrannie; cf. It. tirannia; Gr. tyranni`a, tyranni`s, L. tyrannis. See Tyrant. ] 1. The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Sir, ” would he [ Seneca ] say, “an emperor mote need
Be virtuous and hate tyranny.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Severity; rigor; inclemency. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tyranny of the open night's too rough
For nature to endure. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*can"ni*ness, n. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]