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Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. The cankers of envy and faction. Temple.

A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part. "In one cantle of his law." Milton. Cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out. Shak.

Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as:

Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. London Times.

To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.

Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as: (a) The body. (Shak). (b) The tomb. (Milton). (c) A book of selections. [poetic] They found him dead . . . an empty casket. Shak.

To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.

The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body.

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist. Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be. Locke.

Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

s before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.

The middle or central portion of anything.

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

is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. Samuel Clark. Any society into which chance might throw him. Macaulay. T…

One who changes or alters the form of anything.

That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging channels. Dalton. At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.

Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.

Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.