CPage 55
- 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.