Word Meanings - CANKERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Like a canker; full of canker. 2. Surly; sore; malignant.

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• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• CANKEREDLY
  Fretfully; spitefully.
• MALIGNANTLY
  In a malignant manner.
• CANKER
  A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. (more info) OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in
• CANKERWORM
  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 larvæ are also called cankerworms. Note: The autumnal species becomes adult late
• CANKERED
  1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. 2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." Shak.
• CANKER RASH
  A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
• CANKER BLOOM
  The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
• SURLY
  sir, and originally meaning, sirlike, i.e., proud. See Sir, and Like, 1. Arrogant; haughty. Cotgrave. 2. Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language;
• CANKERY
  1. Like a canker; full of canker. 2. Surly; sore; malignant.
• CANKER FLY
  A fly that preys on fruit.
• CANKEROUS
  Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." Thomson. Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth.
• CANKER BLOSSOM
  That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.
• CANKER-BIT
  Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.
• WATER CANKER
  See 1
• NONMALIGNANT
  Not malignant, as a disease.
• ENCANKER
  To canker.