cank3 (kangk)

[E. dial.; origin unknown.] The local name in the coal-regions of Derby shire and Leicestershire, England, of a hard, ferruginous sandstone, sometimes called bur in other districts. canker (kang'ker), n. [ E. chancre, q. v.) = Sp. Pg. cancro, also cancer, It. cancro, canchero, formerly also cancaro ), a canker, = 2. Ill-natured; cro ; crabbed; venomous; malignant; wicked. The baser mind it selfe displayes In cancred malice and revenge full spight. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vii. 1. Shak., K. John, ii. 1. A canker'd grandame's will! The Governor... a ured His Majesty that never were courtesy and gentlene so ill requited as his had been by this ingrate and cankered Duke. gangrene, rot, decay, etc. And their word will eat as doth a canker . 2 Tim. ii. 17. Specifically- (a) Cancrum or is (which see, under cancrum). (b) A disease or fungus attacking trees or other on fruit.