cank2 (kangk)

i. [E. dial., perhaps a short form of conquer (* conker ), taken as a freq. verb.] To preserve; overcome; conquer; continue. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 2. Grief, that's beauty's canker . Shak ., Tempest, i. 2. What is this but a new learning, a new canker to rust and corrupt the old truth? Latimer, Misc. Sel. The worm, the canker , and the grief Are mine alone! Byron, On my Thirty-sixth Year. 4. Rust. [Prov. Eng.] -5. In bot.: (a) The canker-rose or field-poppy, Papaver Rhœas. ( b ) The wild dogrose, Rosa can in a. To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, And plant this thorn, this canker , Bolingbroke. Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., i. 3. He held out a rose, To draw the yielding sense, which, come to hand, He shifts, and gives a canker . Middle ton and Rowley , Fair Quarrel, iii. 2. of caterpillar. See Athalia. canker (kang'ker), v. [ Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. G. Herbert, Church Porch, xv. The bramble No wise man ever planted by the rose, It cankers all her beauty. Fletcher, Mad Lover, iv. 4. IMG:content-3031.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To fret; become peevish. Jamie son. -31. To decay or waste away by means of any noxious cause; grow rusty or discolored by oxidation, as a metal. Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. Bacon , Phys. and Med. Remains. canker berry (kang'kėr-beri), n.; pl. canker berries (-iz). In Jamaica, the fruit of Solanum Bahamense . canker-bit (kang'ker-bit), a. Bitten with a cankered or envenomed tooth. Shak . canker-bloomt (kang'kėr-blöm), n. [= D. kan- kerbloem , wild rose, wild poppy.] 1. A bloom or flower eaten by canker.-2. A bloom or flower of the dogrose. The canker - blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses. Shak ., Sonnets, liv.