(in 16th c. cannocht), Sc. form of cannot: see CAN v.
1721. Ramsay, Poems (1877), II. 267. He disna live that canna link The glass about.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 230. I canna read Greekexcept in a Latin translation done into English.