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cancer

  • noun [ masculine ]
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cancer, gen. cancres; m?
a cancer, an eating or spreading disease; cancer, morbus
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  • 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 geallanand hunig

    against cancer, take goat's gall and honey,

    • L. M. 3, 36
      • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 328, 13
      • ;
    • Herb. 32, 3
      • ;
    • Lchdm. i. 130, 12, MS. O, note 24
      • .

  • Wið cancre

    for cancer,

    • Med. ex Quadr. 6, 21
      • ;
    • Lchdm. i. 354, 25
      • .
a crab; cancer, animal.
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v. cancer-hæbern.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cancer.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/5809.

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