CANCEL

Definitions

1. 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. Jer. Taylor.
2. 2. The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
3. 3. The part thus suppressed.