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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CANCELLI
Can
*
cel
"
li,
n.
pl.
Etym:
[L., a
lattice.
See
Cancel,
v. t.]
1.
An
interwoven
or
latticed
wall
or
inclosure;
latticework,
rails,
or
crossbars,
as
around
the
bar
of
a
court
of
justice,
between
the
chancel
and
the
have
of
a
church,
or
in
a
window.
2. (
Anat.
)
Defn:
The
interlacing
osseous
plates
constituting
the
elastic
porous
tissue
of
certain
parts
of
the
bones,
esp.
in
their
articular
extremities.