5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
7. (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank. [See Illust. of Bell.] Knight.