canker

Definitions

1. 1.Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. The cankers of envy and faction. Temple.
2. 2.(Hort.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
3. 3.(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.
4. 4.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.
5. 5.To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune. No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson.
6. 6.To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert.
7. 7.To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.] Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom.
8. 8.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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. The cankers of envy and faction. Temple called?
• What is a disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune. No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson called?
• What is to infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert called?
• What is to waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.] Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom called?
• What is 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 called?