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The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.

th fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.

cation in which the offender is allowed time to repent only while a candle burns. -- Not worth the candle, not worth the cost or trouble. -- Rush candle, a candle made of the pith of certain rushes, peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease. -- Sale by inch of candle, an auction in which persons are allowed to…

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.

ing like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." Thomson. Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth.

Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry. "The canty dame." Wordsworth [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Contented with little, and canty with mair. Burns.

Etym: [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

A quarter of a crown. [Obs.] The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu. Sir W. Scott.

A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents. Simmonds.

A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.

A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. [Obs.] "Old feeble carrions." Shak.

Some worthless catchpenny thing.

Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. The chaff and ruin of the times. Shak.

Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill.

hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.

mpaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.

Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity. The heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian. Dryden.

a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth.

he first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth.