cankerous

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Cankerous growths in the flesh, denote future distinctions either as head of State or stage life.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman

Yet the yielding sky, Invincible vacancy, was there discovered— Though piled-up bricks should pulp the sappy balks, Weight generate a secrecy of heat, Cankerous charring, crevices' fronds of flame.

From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir