Part 1593

<hw>Can"ker</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cankered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cankering</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune.</def>

<blockquote>No lapse of moons can <b>canker</b> Love. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To infect or pollute; to corrupt.</def>

<i>Addison.</i>

<blockquote>A tithe purloined <b>canker</b> the whole estate. <i>Herbert.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Canker</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"ker</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Silvering will sully and <b>canker</b> more than gliding. <i>Bacom.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.</def>

<blockquote>Deceit and <b>cankered</b> malice. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind <b>cankers</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Canker-bit</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"ker-bit`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Canker bloom</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"ker bloom`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.</def>

<h1>Canker blossom</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"ker blos`som</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>O me! you juggler! you <b>canker blossom</b>! You thief of Love! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cankered</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"kered</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Affected with canker; <as>as, a <ex>cankered</ex> mouth</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured.</def> "A <i>cankered</i> grandam's will."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Cankeredly</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"kered*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Fretfully; spitefully.</def>

<h1>Canker fly</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"ker fly`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A fly that preys on fruit.</def>

<h1>Cankerous</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"ker*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Affecting like a canker.</def> "<i>Canrerous</i> shackles."