; gen. cancres;
m? I. a cancer, an eating or
spreading disease; cancer, morbus :-- Gif ðú wille cancer ablendan, genim ðonne fífleáfan ða wyrte: seóþ on wíne
if thou desire to stop a cancer, then take the herb fiveleaf: boil it in wine, Herb. 3, 9; Lchdm. i. 88, 20. Ealne ðone bíte ðæs cancres heó afeormaþ
it clears away all the pain [
bite]
of the cancer, 167, 3; Lchdm. i. 296, 22. Wið cancre, nim gáte geallan