a. Obs. rare. Also spelt -ois, -us, cannos. [f. L. cānus hoary.] Grey, hoary.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, V. vii. 97. Or that wnfreindlie eild had thus besprent My heid and halfettis baith with canus [ed. 1553 canous] hair. Ibid., V. xii. 144. To Troiane ingill, and the cannos [ed. 1553 canois] Veste.
