Meaning of cankery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.
2. Marked by cankers; ulcerous.
3. Rusty; corroded.
4. Corrosive.
5. Metallic or bitter.
6. Surly; cantankerous.
7. Characteristic of canker (disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths)

Examples

“Mix⟳ fresh cow-dung with urine and soap-suds, and with this mixture, was over the sems and branches of the trees, as a white-washer would wash⟳ the ceiling or walls of a room; taking care to cut⟳ off all the cankery parts , and to scrape off all the moss , before you lay⟳ the mixture on. In the course of the Spring⟳ or Summer you will fee a fine new bark coming on. When the old bark is cankery, you must pare is off with a draw-knife, or such a long knife as I have⟳ had made on purpose, especially for wall-trees; where the draw-knife cannot be applied next the wall.”

“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 .”

“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 .”

“The next from of Chancre we have⟳ to notice⟳ is that denominated malignant; which is an ulcer having a circumjacent scarlet hue, cankery and putrid .”

“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.”

“The third is of St. James, who saith to covetous rich men after this manner: 'Weep⟳ and howl, ye rich men, for the misery that shall come⟳ upon you: your riches do rot, your clothes be motheated, your gold and silver wax cankery and rusty, and their rust shall bear⟳ witness against you, and consume⟳ you like⟳ fire: you make⟳ a hoard and treasure of God's indignation at the last⟳ day."”

“cankery water — "impure, poisonous water, red in colour" ( Wade , South Moor , 1966 )”

“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.”

“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⟳.”

“He came from Sea in the Year 1727, or the Beginning of the Year 1728, after which he made a Visit⟳ or two to his Friends in Surry in one of which, his mother having prepar'd a Pot of Sage Tea for her own⟳ drinking; but the Father, unhappily for him (tho' he had hardly ever been known to drink⟳ Tea) took a large Draught of it, and the Moment after he had so done declar'd he was poison'd , the Taste⟳ thereof being nafty and cankery, and worse than any Mineral Water, or Water wherein old Iron⟳ had been steep'd for some Time;”

“Mercury or Podophyllin, as purgative for cankery taste⟳ unconnected with alcoholism;”

“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 .”

“The horrible specter of unhappy and cankery depression has fallen before the angel of peace and good cheer⟳.”

“Pares from their feet the cankery rot.”

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