Canker

Canker - Other Definitions

• (n.) 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.
  
  
• (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
  
  
• (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
  
  
• (n.) 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.
  
  
• (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
  
  
• (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
  
  
• (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
  
  
• (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
  
  
• (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
  
  
• bloom () The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
  
  
• blossom () That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.
  
  
• fly () A fly that preys on fruit.
  
  
• rash () A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Canker
  
  
• (a.) Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.
  
  
• (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured.