rare. [a. F. canicule dog-star, dog-days, ad. L. canīcula.] The dog-days.
a. 1719. Addison, Lett., in Student, II. 89. Your departure, which is more afflicting to me than the Canicule.
1819. H. Busk, Vestriad, IV. 1000. Resembling more the baneful Canicule.
1834. Fraser’s Mag., IX. 541. During the canicule of 1825.
