Noun
a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

Verb
of cheques or tickets

Verb
remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

Verb
declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law"

Verb
postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"

Verb
make up for; "His skills offset his opponent''s superior strength"

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v. i.
To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

v. i.
To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

v. i.
To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

v. i.
To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

v. i.
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

v. i.
An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

v. i.
The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

v. i.
The part thus suppressed.

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Cancel

Can"cel , v. i. [Imp. & p. p. Canceled ∨ Cancelled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Canceling ∨ Cancelling.] [L. cancellare to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr. canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars, dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. latticed gate. Cf. Chancel.] 1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.]

A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged.

2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." Milton. 3. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.

4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

The indentures were canceled.

He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion.

5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See Abolish.

Cancel

Can"cel, n. [See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel.] 1. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.]

A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.

2. (Print) (a) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. (b) The part thus suppressed.

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.