Word Meanings - CANKER-BIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.

Related words: (words related to CANKER-BIT)

• CANKEREDLY
  Fretfully; spitefully.
• CANKER
  A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. (more info) OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in
• CANKERWORM
  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 larvæ are also called cankerworms. Note: The autumnal species becomes adult late
• CANKERED
  1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. 2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." Shak.
• CANKER RASH
  A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
• CANKER BLOOM
  The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
• CANKERY
  1. Like a canker; full of canker. 2. Surly; sore; malignant.
• CANKER FLY
  A fly that preys on fruit.
• CANKEROUS
  Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." Thomson. Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth.
• CANKER BLOSSOM
  That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.
• CANKER-BIT
  Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• WATER CANKER
  See 1
• THREATENER
  One who threatens. Shak.
• BEATEN
  1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak. 2. Vanquished; conquered; baffled. 3. Exhausted; tired out. 4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. 5. Tried; practiced. Beau.
• WHEATEN
  Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper.
• WAR-BEATEN
  Warworn.
• WORM-EATEN
  1. Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber. Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut. Shak. 2. Worn-out; old; worthless. Sir W. Raleigh. -- Worm"-eat`en*ness, n. Dr. John Smith.
• ENCANKER
  To canker.
• GREATEN
  To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. A minister's is to greaten and exalt . Ken.
• THREATENING
  a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters , letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.