canker
n. வாய்ப்புண், அரிப்பு எரிப்பு உடைய அழிசீக்கட்டு, மரஞ்செடியினங்களில் தோன்றும் காளான் நோய்வகை, பழமர நோய்வகை, குதிரைகள் காலில் தோன்றும் வீக்கம், நாயின் காதில் வரும் படைநோய், பறவைகளுக்கு வரும் கட்டி, அரிக்கும்புழு, அழிகேடு, (வி.) உள்ளந்தரி, அரித்தழி, இழிவுக்கு ஆளாக்கு, பழியொட்டு, அழி, கேடுபரப்பு, பண்புகெடு, சீர்குலைவூட்டு, ஊழ்த்துப்போ, கெடு.
Can"ker, n. Etym: [OE. canker, cancre, AS. cancer (akin to D. kanker, OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See cancer, and cf. Chancre.] 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma. 2. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. The cankers of envy and faction. Temple. 3. (Hort.) Defn: A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. 4. (Far.) Defn: An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. 5. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. Shak. Black canker. See under Black. Can"ker, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cankered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cankering.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune. No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson. 2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert. Can"ker, v. i. 1. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.] Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom. 2. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. Deceit and cankered malice. Dryden. As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. Shak.