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Can"ker (kă&nsmacr_;"k&etilde_;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. &unr_; excrescence on tree, &unr_; gangrene. Cf. also OF. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See cancer, and cf. Chancre.]
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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.
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2. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
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The cankers of envy and faction. Temple.
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3. (Hort.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
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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.
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5. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
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To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose.
And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. Shak.
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Black canker. See under Black.
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Can"ker (kă&nsmacr_;"k&etilde_;r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cankered (-k&etilde_;rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cankering.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
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No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson.
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2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison.
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A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. Herbert.
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Can"ker, v. i. 1. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.]
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Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom.
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2. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
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Deceit and cankered malice. Dryden.
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As with age his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers. Shak.
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