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Webster's 1828 DictionaryCANKER, n. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)n Merriam Webster's
Oxford Reference Dictionaryn. & v. --n. 1 a a destructive fungus disease of trees and plants. b an open wound in the stem of a tree or plant. 2 Zool. an ulcerous ear disease of animals esp. cats and dogs. 3 Med. an ulceration esp. of the lips. 4 a corrupting influence. --v.tr. 1 consume with canker. 2 corrupt. 3 (as cankered adj.) soured, malignant, crabbed. Phrases and idioms: canker-worm any caterpillar of various wingless moths which consume the buds and leaves of shade and fruit trees in N. America. Derivatives: cankerous adj. Etymology: OE cancer & ONF cancre, OF chancre f. L cancer crab Webster's 1913 DictionaryCanker Can"ker (k[a^][ng]"k[~e]r), n. [OE. canker, cancre, AS. cancer (akin to D. kanker, OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. ? excrescence on tree, ? gangrene. Cf. also OF. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See cancer, and cf. Chancre.] 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma. 2. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. The cankers of envy and faction. --Temple. 3. (Hort.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. 4. (Far.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. 5. 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. Webster's 1913 DictionaryCanker Can"ker (k[a^][ng]"k[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cankered (-k[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cankering.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. No lapse of moons can canker Love. --Tennyson. 2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. --Addison. A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. --Herbert. Webster's 1913 DictionaryCanker Can"ker, v. i. 1. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.] Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. --Bacom. 2. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. Deceit and cankered malice. --Dryden. As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. --Shak. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary(cankers) 1. A canker is something evil that spreads and affects things or people. (FORMAL) ...the canker of jealousy. N-COUNT 2. Canker is a disease which affects the wood of shrubs and trees, making the outer layer come away to expose the inside of the stem. In gardens, cankers are most prominent on apples and pear trees. N-VAR Easton's Bible Dictionarya gangrene or mortification which gradually spreads over the whole body (2 Tim. 2:17). In James 5:3 "cankered" means "rusted" (R.V.) or tarnished. International Standard Bible Encyclopediakan'-ker. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
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