Definition of "canam" [canam]

• A dry measure of Pondicherry, India, equal to 72 liters, or 2 United States bushels. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Yes | No | Report from canam wrote 46 weeks 5 days ago"
• "In his first poem to Tuticanus, Ovid had promised that other poems would follow: 'teque canam quacumque nota, _tibi carmina mittam_' (xii 19)."
• "Luck joins the phrase with the following _tibi carmina mittam_, but the construction seems somewhat cumbersome; it is probably better to retain the comma after _nota_ and take the phrase with _teque canam_."