(in 16th c. cannocht), Sc. form of cannot: see CAN v.

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1721.  Ramsay, Poems (1877), II. 267. He disna live that canna link The glass about.

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1826.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 230. I canna read Greek—except in a Latin translation done into English.

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