Slay the dragon

General vocabulary installation #1

Rankle:

from Middle English, ranclen
from the Old French, rancler, alteration of draoncler
from draoncle, meaning festering sore
from Latin, dracunculus, diminutive of draco-, dracon-, i.e., serpent, see dragon

To be figuratively "gnawed at" or irritated seriously, as if by a festering wound, which might appear to be either in the shape of a serpent or tiny dragon or which might, to naive observers, appear to be the very bite of a much-smaller-than-ordinary dragon.

What rankles Miss Dickinson? Today's Dickinsonian oracle:

Myself can read the Telegrams
A Letter chief to me
The Stock's advance and retrograde
And what the Markets say

The Weather - how the Rains
in Countries have begun.
'Tis News as null as nothing,
But sweeter so, than none.
(E. Dickinson, 1049)