n. [ D. anker: cf. LL. anceria, ancheria. ] A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 81/2 imperial gallons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from Prof. Anker of Austria: cf. F. ankérite, G. ankerit. ] (Min.) A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ See the nouns Bank and the verbs derived from them. ] 1. One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A money changer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Crabb. J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A ditcher; a drain digger. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female banker. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. canker, cancre, AS. cancer (akin to D. kanker, OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. &unr_; excrescence on tree, &unr_; gangrene. Cf. also OF. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See cancer, and cf. Chancre. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cankers of envy and faction. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Hort.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose.
And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black canker. See under Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cankered p. pr. & vb. n. Cankering. ] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. [ 1913 Webster ]

No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deceit and cankered malice. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

As with age his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Eaten out by canker, or as by canker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O me! you juggler! you canker blossom!
You thief of Love! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. “A cankered grandam's will.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Fretfully; spitefully. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fly that preys on fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affecting like a canker. “Canrerous shackles.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Misdeem it not a cankerous change. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The autumnal species (Anisopteryx pometaria) becomes adult late in autumn (after frosts) and in winter. The spring species (Anisopteryx vernata) remains in the ground through the winter, and matures in early spring. Both have winged males and wingless females. The larvæ are similar in appearance and habits, and belong to the family of measuring worms or spanworms. These larvæ hatch from the eggs when the leaves begin to expand in spring. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Like a canker; full of canker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Surly; sore; malignant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [ Colloq. ] -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cantankerous old maiden aunt. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To canker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body. [ 1913 Webster ]

They threw out flankers, and endeavored to dislodge their assailants. W. Irwing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Flankered p. pr. & vb. n. Flankering. ] [ See Flank, v. t. ] 1. To defend by lateral fortifications. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To attack sideways. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hankered p. pr. & vb. n. Hankering. ] [ Prob. fr. hang; cf. D. hunkeren, hengelen. ] 1. To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was hankering to join his friend. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To linger in expectation or with desire. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a hankering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The menhaden. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The menhaded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A ship having large compartments, designed to transport crude oil over the ocean. [ PJC ]

n. One who dresses showily; a prinker. “A pranker or a dancer.” Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) See Chancre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Spanker boom (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is attached. See Illust. of Ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small coin. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) See Canker, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]