a disease incident to trees, proceeding chiefly from the nature of the soil. It makes the bark rot and fall. If the canker be in a bough, cut it off; in a large bough, at some distance from the stem; in a small one, close to it: but for over-hot strong ground, the ground is to be cooled about the roots with pond-mud and cow-dung.

Canker, among farriers. See Farriery, § xliv. 2.