Canker

n.	1.
	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.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
	4.	(Far.) 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.
v. t.	1.	To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. [imp. & p. p. Cankered (-kẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cankering.] No lapse of moons can canker Love. - Tennyson.
	2.	To infect or pollute; to corrupt. A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. - Herbert.
v. i.	1.	To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. 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.

Noun	1.	canker - an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
Verb	1.	canker - become infected with a canker
	2.	canker - infect with a canker

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