a. [f. L. canōr-us melodious (f. canor song, f. canĕre to sing) + -OUS.] Singing, melodious, musical; resonant, ringing.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. xiv. 368. Birds that are canorous … as Nightingales … Canary birds and Larkes.
1745. trans. Columella’s Husb., VII. xii. The keeper of the manor house [i.e., a dog] … of a vast canorous bark.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., III. 171. A beautiful & a canorous bird.
1822. De Quincey, Confess., Wks. V. 94. A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.
Hence Canorously adv., Canorousness.
1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 293. The voice … as of a Trumpet talking loudly or canorously with him.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. II. 184. He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.
