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ding gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.

The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [Obs.] O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.

A fly that preys on fruit.

A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

Eaten out by canker, or as by canker. [Obs.]

Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.

Fretfully; spitefully.

Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." Thomson. Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth.

y eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms.

Like a canker; full of canker.

To canker. [Obs.]

See Canker, n., 1.

s, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood . . . erodes the vessels." Wiseman. The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun. Am. Cyc.

The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

ard for the season; we have a forward spring. early. The most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow. Shak.

looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms.