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A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceæ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.

of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. [Obs.] The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound. Skelton.

An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

d performance; a botch; a gross blunder. Those errors and bungles which are committed. Cudworth.

A large indefinite quantity. [Colloq.] The worthies of antiquity bought the rarest pictures with bushels of gold, without counting the weight or the number of the pieces. Dryden.

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

A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plant, biought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

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.

red juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).