canker blossom (kangkerblosum)

1. A canker-bloom.-2. That which causes canker in a blo om. O me! you juggler! you canker - blo om ! You thief of love! Shak ., M. N. D., iii. 2. canker-dortt, n. [ME., canker + dort .] Anxiety; distre . Was Troilus naught in a canker-dort. Chaucer , Troilus, ii. 1752. cankered (kang'kėrd), p . a. [Pp. of canker , v .] 1. Affected with canker: as, a cankered tree. IMG:content-3032.png:[blocks in formation] Unknown before, whose cankerous shackles seiz'd The envenom'd soul. Thomson, Liberty, iv. Hither may come the prisoner, escaping from his dark and narrow cell and cankerous chain. Hawthorne, Old Manse. canker-rash (kang'kér-rash'), n. In pathol., a variety of scarlet fever complicated with ulcerations in the throat.