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.), pyromorphite. -- Green linnet (Zoöl.), the greenfinch. -- Green looper (Zoöl.), the cankerworm. -- Green marble (Min.), serpentine. -- Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill. -- Green monkey (Zoöl.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly ta…

ed; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound. Shak.

See Canker, n., 1.

Any moth of the family Phalænidæ, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid.

ich constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvæ, such as cankerworms, as food for its young.

A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation. Canker rash. See in the Vocabulary. -- Nettle rash. See Urticaria. -- Rose rash. See Roseola. -- Tooth rash. See Red-gum.

To become soiled or tarnished. Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. Bacon.

secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging. Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites. Milton.