cankery

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.

   “In the pruning of standards give only occasional pruning, to reform or remove any casual irregularity from cross-placed or very crowded branches; and take away all cankery and decayed wood .”

2. sıfat Marked by cankers; ulcerous.

   “It is powerfully effecacious in the cleansing and arresting the progress of cankery affections of every kind, and removing all local foulness from any part .”

3. sıfat Rusty; corroded.

   “The water in this pit varied from two inches to a foot in depth, and in some places it had stood so many years that it was cankery, or corroded, and working in it barefooted, it would eat the skin off between my toes, making it very painful.”

4. sıfat Corrosive.

   “And awful things happen to people who break their promises, things that make their insides turn green and cankery . ·”

5. sıfat Metallic or bitter.

   “Lastly, there was the 'cankery' taste of the mouth; the 'metallic' taste of the boy; the watery state of the mouth and lips in each; the teasing, hacking, dry cough, common to all, and affecting the children, particularly towards the last.”

6. sıfat Surly; cantankerous.

   “Every body kens, Miss Mizy, that thou's a cankery creature , and that had thou no been sae, I might hae been quit o' thee lang syne; but nae fool cast up that would be fashed wi' thee.”

7. sıfat Characteristic of canker (disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths)

   “Pares from their feet the cankery rot.”