gangling

[English gang; dim. suff. -ling.] Straggling. 124 A. Transitive: Literally: gangrenes cent *(2) To make corrupt or vicious. "This dyscrasie and gangrened disposition does always suppose a long or a base sin for their parent." - Вр. Taylor, vol. i., ser. 20. B. In trans.: To become mortified. "His wound gangrened before night."-Ludlow: Memoirs, i. 64. găn-grě něsç'-ent, a . [Eng. gangren (e); suff. -escent Lat. escens.] Becoming gangrened or gangrenous; tending to mortification. găn-grě-nous, adj . [Eng. gangren(e); -ous.] Affected with gangrene or mortification; mortified; gangrened; indicating gangrene or mortification. "The blood, turning acrimonious, corrodes the ve els, producing hæmorrhages, pustules red, lead-colored, black, and gangrenous ." - Arbuthnot : On Aliments.