n. [ OE. canker, cancre, AS. cancer (akin to D. kanker, OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. &unr_; excrescence on tree, &unr_; gangrene. Cf. also OF. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See cancer, and cf. Chancre. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The cankers of envy and faction. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose.
And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Black canker.
v. t.
No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom. [ 1913 Webster ]
Deceit and cankered malice. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
As with age his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Eaten out by canker, or as by canker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]
That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
O me! you juggler! you canker blossom!
You thief of Love! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
adv. Fretfully; spitefully. [ 1913 Webster ]
A fly that preys on fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Affecting like a canker. “Canrerous shackles.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]