Destroyer N. destroyer &c (destroy) &c 162; cankerworm &c (bane) 663; assassin &c (killer) 361; executioner &c (punish) 975; biblioclast^, eidoloclast^, iconoclast, idoloclast^; nihilist. 166.

[Med.], moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper &c (evil doer) 913; demon &c 980.

As a specimen of the more philosophic, the following will indicate the truthfulness of this description: Truth is the precious harvest of the earth, But once, when harvest waved upon a land, The noisome cankerworm and caterpillar, Locusts, and all the swarming, foul-born broods, Fastened upon it with swift, greedy jaws, And turned the harvest into pestilence, Until men said, What profits it to sow?