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n. - The quantity contained in a hand-sized cylindrical metal container.

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  • If the tiny canful which is our selves is pure and unsoiled, then when it meets the world it will blend with the Spirit which informs the world perfectly harmoniously,...
  • Don't forget to gather the eggs and throw out a canful of scratch for the chickens around five o'clock.
  • Then he remembered that he had a canful with him, the one he had almost unconsciously snatched up when he started on his present errand.
  • He drew a canful of water from the well, and had such
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