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Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

Cankered :: Cankered (imp. & p. p.) of Canke.

Canker :: Canker (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose..

Canker :: Canker (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off..

Cankerous :: Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker.

Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth..

Cankering :: Cankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canke.

Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.

Cankerworm :: Cankerworm (n.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms..

Canker :: Canker (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous..

Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.

Canker-bit :: Canker-bit (a.) Eaten out by canker, or as by canker..

Noma :: Noma (n.) See Canker, n., 1..

Geometrid :: Geometrid (n.) One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms..

Canker :: Canker (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral..

Canker :: Canker (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..

Canker :: Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy..

Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Surly; sore; malignant.

Canker :: Canker (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..

Erosion :: Erosion (n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

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