Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 11
Cancerate (v. i.) To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. -- Boyle.
Canceration (n.) The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
Cancerite (n.) Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "Cancerous vices." -- G. Eliot.
Cancriform (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.
Cancriform (a.) Like a cancer; cancerous.
Cancrine (a.) Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.
Cancrinite (n.) (Min.) A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.
Cancroid (a.) (Zool.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.
Cancroid (a.) Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.
Cancroid (a.) Of or relating to a cancroid.
Cancroid (n.) The most common form of skin cancer [syn: cancroid, squamous cell carcinoma].
Cand (n.) Fluor spar. See Kand.
Candelabra (n.) A branched, ornamental candlestick having several sockets for candles.
Syn: candelabrum.
Candelabra (n.) A branched, ornamental electric light fixture, resembling an candelabra[wn1], having several sockets for lights.
Syn: candelabrum.
Candelabra (n. pl. ) of Candelabrum.
Candelabrums (n. pl. ) of Candelabrum.
Candelabrum (n.) (Antiq.) A lamp stand of any sort.
Candelabrum (n.) (Antiq.) A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.
Candelabrum (n.) A large candlestick, having several branches ; also called candelabra.
Candelabra (n.) Branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights [syn: candelabrum, candelabra].
Candent (a.) Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. "A candent vessel." -- Boyle.
Candent (a.) Emitting light as a result of being heated; "an incandescent bulb" [syn: incandescent, candent].
Canderos (n.) An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.
Candescence (n.) See Incandescence.
Candicant (a.) Growing white. [Obs.]
Candid (a.) White. [Obs.]
The box receives all black; but poured from thence, The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence. -- Dryden.
Candid (a.) 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. "Candid and dispassionate men." -- W. Irving.
Candid (a.) Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.
Syn: Fair; open; ingenuous; impartial; just; frank; artless; unbiased; equitable.
Usage: Candid, Fair, Open, Frank, Ingenuous. A man is fair when he puts things on a just or equitable footing; he is candid when be looks impartially on both sides of a subject, doing justice especially to the motives and conduct of an opponent; he is open and frank when he declares his sentiments without reserve; he is ingenuous when he does this from a noble regard for truth. Fair dealing; candid investigation; an open temper; a frank disposition; an ingenuous answer or declaration.
Candid (a.) Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder].
Candid (a.) Informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared; "a candid photograph"; "a candid interview."
Candid (a.) Openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness; "his candid eyes"; "an open and trusting nature"; "a heart-to-heart talk" [syn: candid, open, heart-to-heart].
Candidacy (n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.
Candidacy (n.) The campaign of a candidate to be elected [syn: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign].
Candidate (n.) 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.
Candidate (n.) A politician who is running for public office [syn: campaigner, candidate, nominee].
Candidate (n.) Someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) [syn: candidate, prospect].
Candidateship (n.) Candidacy.
Candidating (n.) The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement. [Cant, U. S.]
Candidature (n.) Candidacy.
Candidature (n.) The campaign of a candidate to be elected [syn: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign].
Candidly (adv.) In a candid manner.
Candidly (adv.) (Used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: honestly, candidly, frankly].
Candidness (n.) The quality of being candid.
Candidness (n.) The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness, frankness, directness, forthrightness].
Candied (a.) Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.
Candied (a.) Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as candied sirup.
Candied (a.) Conted or more or less with sugar; as, candidied raisins
Candied (a.) Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering.
Candied (a.) Covered or incrusted with that which resembles sugar or candy.
Candify (v. t. & v. i.) To make or become white, or candied.
Candiot (a.) Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary.
Candite (n.) A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.
Candle (n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.
Candle (n.) That which gives light; a luminary.
Candleberry tree () A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.
Candlebomb (n.) A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.
Candlebomb (n.) A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.
Candle coal () See Cannel coal.
Candlefish (n.) A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it
Candlefish (n.) The beshow.
Candleholder (n.) One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance.
Candlelight (n.) The light of a candle.
Never went by candlelight to bed. -- Dryden.
Candlelight (n.) The light provided by a burning candle [syn: candlelight, candle flame].
Candlemas (n.) The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day.
Candlemas (n.) Feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland [syn: Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Feb 2].
Candlestick (n.) An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.
Candlestick (n.) A holder with sockets for candles [syn: candlestick, candle holder].
Candlestick, () The lamp-stand, "candelabrum," which Moses was commanded to make for the tabernacle, according to the pattern shown him. Its form is described in Ex. 25:31-40; 37:17-24, and may be seen represented on the Arch of Titus at Rome. It was among the spoils taken by the Romans from the temple of Jerusalem (A.D. 70). It was made of fine gold, and with the utensils belonging to it was a talent in weight.
The tabernacle was a tent without windows, and thus artificial light was needed. This was supplied by the candlestick, which, however, served also as a symbol of the church or people of God, who are "the light of the world." The light which "symbolizes the knowledge of God is not the sun or any natural light, but an artificial light supplied with a specially prepared oil; for the knowledge of God is in truth not natural nor common to all men, but furnished over and above nature."
This candlestick was placed on the south side of the Holy Place, opposite the table of shewbread (Ex. 27:21; 30:7, 8; Lev. 24:3; 1 Sam. 3:3). It was lighted every evening, and was extinguished in the morning. In the morning the priests trimmed the seven lamps, borne by the seven branches, with golden snuffers, carrying away the ashes in golden dishes (Ex. 25:38), and supplying the lamps at the same time with fresh oil. What ultimately became of the candlestick is unknown.
In Solomon's temple there were ten separate candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right and five on the left of the Holy Place (1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chr. 4:7). Their structure is not mentioned. They were carried away to Babylon (Jer. 52:19).
In the temple erected after the Exile there was again but one candlestick, and like the first, with seven branches. It was this which was afterwards carried away by Titus to Rome, where it was deposited in the Temple of Peace. When Genseric plundered Rome, he is said to have carried it to Carthage (A.D. 455). It was recaptured by Belisarius (A.D. 533), and carried to Constantinople and thence to Jerusalem, where it finally disappeared.
Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
A bookworm, a candlewaster. -- B. Jonson.
Candock (n.) (Bot.) A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily ({Nuphar luteum"> Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily ({Nuphar luteum).
Candor (n.) [U]【美】公正，公平；坦率，真誠 Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. [Obs.]
Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor. -- Massinger.
Candor (n.) A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.
Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question. -- Whewell.
Candor (n.) Ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty [syn: {fairness}, {fair-mindedness}, {candor}, {candour}] [ant: {unfairness}].
Candor (n.) The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech [syn: {candor}, {candour}, {candidness}, {frankness}, {directness}, {forthrightness}].
Candor, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 855
Housing Units (2000): 373
Land area (2000): 0.442580 sq. miles (1.146277 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.442580 sq. miles (1.146277 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12210
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.230169 N, 76.337909 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13743
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Candor, NY
Candor
Candor, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 825
Housing Units (2000): 299
Land area (2000): 1.193627 sq. miles (3.091480 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.193627 sq. miles (3.091480 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10120
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.293032 N, 79.742423 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27229
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Candor, NC
Candor
Candroy (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
Candy (v. i.) To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
Candy (v. i.) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Candy (n.) Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.
Candy (n.) Cocaine. [slang]
Candied (imp. & p. p.) of Candy.
Candying (p. pr & vb. n.) of Candy.
Candy (v. t.) To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
Candy (v. t.) To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
Candy (v. t.) To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
Those frosts that winter brings
Which candy every green. -- Drayson.
Candy
(n.) A
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Candy (n.) A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts [syn: candy, confect].
Candy (v.) Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn: sugarcoat, glaze, candy].
Compare: Iberis
Iberis (n.) A genus of Old World herbs and subshrubs including the candytuft.
Syn: genus Iberis.
Candytuft (n.) (Bot.) An annual
plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given
to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the
for Crete). It is grown as an ornamental plant, having tufted
red,violet,
purple, or pink flowers.
Candytuft (n.) Any of various flowering plants
of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white
to red or purple flowers; native to Mediterranean region.
Cane (n.) (Bot.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
Cane (n.) (Bot.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
Cane (n.) (Bot.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. -- B. Jonson.
Note: In the Southern United States great cane is the Arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is. Arundinaria tecta.
Cane (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
Stir the fire with your master's cane. -- Swift.
Cane (n.) A lance or dart made of cane. [R.]
Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane. -- Dryden.
Cane (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.
Cane borer (Zool.), A beetle (Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc.
Cane mill, A mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar.
Cane trash, The crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.
Caned (imp. & p. p.) of Cane.
Caning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cane.
Cane (v. t.) To beat with a cane. --Macaulay.
Cane (v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
Cane (n.) A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
Cane (n.) A strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane.
Cane (n.) A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment.
Cane (v.) Beat with a cane [syn: cane, flog, lambaste, lambast].
Cane, () A tall sedgy plant with a hollow stem, growing in moist places.
In Isa. 43:24; Jer. 6:20, the Hebrew word _kaneh_ is thus rendered, giving its name to the plant. It is rendered "reed" in 1 Kings 14:15; Job 40:21; Isa. 19:6; 35:7. In Ps. 68:30 the expression "company of spearmen" is in the margin and the Revised Version "beasts of the reeds," referring probably to the crocodile or the hippopotamus as a symbol of Egypt. In 2 Kings 18:21; Isa. 36:6; Ezek. 29:6, 7, the reference is to the weak, fragile nature of the reed. (See CALAMUS.)
Canebrake (n.) A thicket of canes. -- Ellicott. canecutter
Canebrake (n.) A dense growth of cane (especially giant cane).
Caned (a.) Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
Canella (n.) (Bot.) A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the West Indies.
Note: The principal species is Canella alba, and its bark is a spice and drug exported under the names of wild cinnamon and whitewood bark.
Canella (n.) Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic [syn: canella, canella bark, white cinnamon].
Canescent (a.) Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
Canescent (a.) Of greyish white; "the canescent moon."
Canescent (a.) Covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent, hoary].
Can hook () A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.
Compare: Dog Star
Dog Star, () Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, [alpha] Canis Majoris. See Dog days.
Canicula (n.) (Astron.) The Dog Star; Sirius.
Canicular (a.) Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
Canicular days, The dog days, See Dog days.
Canicular year, The Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.
Canicule (n.) Canicula. -- Addison.
Caninal (a.) See Canine, a.
Canine (n.) [C] (Anat.) 犬，狗；犬科動物；犬齒 A canine tooth.
Canine (a.) 犬的，狗的；似犬的；犬科的；犬齒的 Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
Canine (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.
Canine appetite, A morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia.
Canine letter, The letter r. See R.
Canine madness, Hydrophobia.
Canine tooth, A tooth situated between the incisor and bicuspid teeth, so called because well developed in dogs; usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the lower jaw.
Canine (a.) Of or relating to a pointed conical tooth [syn: canine, laniary].
Canine (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae.
Canine (n.) One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars [syn: canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid].
Canine (n.) Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles [syn: canine, canid].
Canine, () Canino (noun & adjective).
Canes (n. pl. ) of Canis.
Canis (n.) (Zool.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves.
Canis major [L., larger dog], A constellation to the southeast of Orion, containing Sirius or the Dog Star.
Canis minor [L., smaller dog], A constellation to the east of Orion, containing Procyon, a star of the first magnitude.
Canister (n.) A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
Canister (n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.
Canister (n.) (Mil.) 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.
Canister (n.) A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm [syn: case shot, canister, canister shot].
Canister (n.) Metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour [syn: canister, cannister, tin]
Canker (n.) [C, U] 【醫】（壞疽性）潰瘍；口瘡；（動、植物的）潰瘍病；腐敗的原由，弊害 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.
Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
The cankers of envy and faction. -- Temple.
Canker (n.) (Hort.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
Canker (n.) (Far.) 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.
Canker (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose.
And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. -- Shak.
Black canker. See under Black.
Cankered (imp. & p. p.) of Canker.
Cankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canker.
Canker (v. t.) 使潰瘍；使腐敗 To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
No lapse of moons can canker Love. -- Tennyson.
Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt. -- Addison.
A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. -- Herbert.