cankery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Full of canker (plant disease)

   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 .
   • The part of the trunk below a shews the cankery state of the bark; which rough cankery bark must always be pared off, otherwise it will infect the new .
2. 2

   Marked by cankers

   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 .
   • A Child of Mr Joshua Fales, aged 6 1/2 years of a cankery Disorder .
   • These cankery complaints require a wash made of the medicine recommended by Dr. Thomson to remove canker .
3. 3

   Rusty

   Rusty; corroded.

   • cankery water — "impure, poisonous water, red in colour" ( Wade , South Moor , 1966 )
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   1. 4

      Corrosive.

      • And awful things happen to people who break their promises, things that make their insides turn green and cankery . ·
      • But in the back o' his head the devil would prod an' the cankery cravin ' would eat deeper.
   2. 5

      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.
      • Mercury or Podophyllin, as purgative for cankery taste unconnected with alcoholism;
   3. 6

      Surly

      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.
      • "He was always one of them cankery chiels as never have a kindly word for man nor beast , " said the landlord .
      • They're a cankery independent sort of chaps, are bootmakers .
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      Characteristic of canker (disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the…

      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.

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