CPage 37
- English Word Canis Definition A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves.
- English Word Canister Definition A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
- English Word Canister Definition A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.
- English Word Canister Definition A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot.
- English Word Canker Definition A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.
- English Word Canker Definition Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
- English Word Canker Definition A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
- English Word Canker Definition An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.
- English Word Canker Definition A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
- English Word Canker Definition To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
- English Word Canker Definition To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
- English Word Canker Definition To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
- English Word Canker Definition To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
- English Word Canker bloom Definition The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
- English Word Canker blossom Definition That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.
- English Word Canker fly Definition A fly that preys on fruit.
- English Word Canker rash Definition A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
- English Word Canker-bit Definition Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.
- English Word Cankered Definition of Canker
- English Word Cankered Definition Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.
- English Word Cankered Definition Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured.
- English Word Cankeredly Definition Fretfully; spitefully.
- English Word Cankering Definition of Canker
- English Word Cankerous Definition Affecting like a canker.
- English Word Cankerworm Definition The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms.
- English Word Cankery Definition Like a canker; full of canker.
- English Word Cankery Definition Surly; sore; malignant.
- English Word Canna Definition A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.
- English Word Canna Definition A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States.
- English Word Cannabene Definition A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties.