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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 tam…

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

A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.

The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails. Luff tackle, a purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes. Totten. -- Luff upon luff, a luff tackle attached to the fall of another luff tackle. R. H. Dana, Jr.…

The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.

A person who deals in money; banker or broker. [Obs. or R.]

The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

See Canker, n., 1.

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

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

One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro. Hoyle.

A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.

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.

f those dealt to black. All bets are then off; unless the value is 31, in which case the banker wins half the stakes.

; 95 Crossjack Lift; 96 Crossjack Braces; 97 Mizzenmast and Rigging; 98 Mizzen Stay; 99 Spanker Gaff; 100 Peak Halyards; 101 Spanker Vangs; 102 Spanker Boom; 103 Spanker Boom Topping Lift; 104 Jacob's Ladder, or Stern Ladder; 105 Spanker Sheet; 106 Cutwater; 107 Starboard Bow; 108 Starboard Beam; 109 Water Line; 110 St…

A banker, or changer of money. [East Indies]

To sniff; to snuff; to smell. It now appears that they were still snifing and hankering after their old quarters. Landor.

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

o carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.

A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.