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n.
One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
v. t.
Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
v. i.
To grow into a canser; to become cancerous.
n.
A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
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A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
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A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.
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Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
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Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.
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Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.
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A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle.
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The yellow discoloration often observed in cancerous tumors.
v. i.
The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.
n.
A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer.
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Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.
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The affection of the system with cancer.
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The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
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A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii).
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A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer.
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That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
imp. & p. p.
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