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  • English Word Cancer Definition A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.
  • English Word Cancer Definition The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.
  • English Word Cancer Definition A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.
  • English Word Cancer Definition Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.
  • English Word Cancerate Definition To grow into a canser; to become cancerous.
  • English Word Cancerated Definition of Cancerate
  • English Word Canceration Definition The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
  • English Word Cancerite Definition Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
  • English Word Cancriform Definition Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.
  • English Word Cancriform Definition Like a cancer; cancerous.
  • English Word Cancrine Definition Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.
  • English Word Cancrinite Definition A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.
  • English Word Cancroid Definition Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.
  • English Word Cancroid Definition Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.
  • English Word Cand Definition Fluor spar. See Kand.
  • English Word Candelabra Definition of Candelabrum
  • English Word Candelabrum Definition A lamp stand of any sort.
  • English Word Candelabrum Definition A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.
  • English Word Candelabrum Definition A large candlestick, having several branches.
  • English Word Candelabrums Definition of Candelabrum
  • English Word Candent Definition Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.
  • English Word Canderos Definition An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.
  • English Word Candescence Definition See Incandescence.
  • English Word Candicant Definition Growing white.
  • English Word Candid Definition White.
  • English Word Candid Definition Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion.
  • English Word Candid Definition Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.
  • English Word Candidacy Definition The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.
  • English Word Candidate Definition One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.
  • English Word Candidateship Definition Candidacy.