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Webster's 1828 DictionaryCANKERED, pp. 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 DictionaryCankered Can"kered, a. 1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. 2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. ``A cankered grandam's will.'' --Shak. International Standard Bible Encyclopediakan'-kerd (Jas 5:3 the Revised Version (British and American), "rusted"). |