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Cant
CANT, v.t.
1. In popular usage, to turn about, or to turn over, by a sudden push or thrust; as, to cant over a pail or a cask.
2. To toss; as, to cant a ball.
3. To speak with a whining voice, or an affected singing tone.
[In this sense, it is usually intransitive.]
4. To sell by auction, or to bid a price at auction.
CANT, n.
1. A toss; a throw, thrust or push with a sudden jerk; as, to give a ball a cant. [This is the literal sense.]
2. A whining, singing manner of speech; a quaint, affected mode of uttering words either in conversation or preaching.
3. The whining speech of beggars, as in asking alms and making complaints of their distresses.
4. The peculiar words and phrases of professional men; phrases often repeated, or not well authorized.
5. Any barbarous jargon in speech.
6. Whining pretension to goodness.
7. Outcry, at a public sale of goods; a call for bidders at an auction.
This use of the word is precisely equivalent to auction, auctio, a hawking, a crying out, or in the vulgar dialect, a singing out, but I believe not in use in the U. States.
CANT, n. A nich; a corner or retired place.
Cant-timbers, in a ship, are those which are situated at the two ends.
cant appears in definitions for these words:
Accend Accent Addition Advoyer Alquier Arches-court Archiepiscopal Audience Augmentation Belch Betty Bill Bishop Brogue Bub Bunter Buprestes Butter Canary Cant Cantabrian Cantar Canter Cantharidin Canticle Cantingly Canto Canton Cantonal Cantonize Cantred Canzone Chant Congregation Contraction Cony-catch Cotton Diet Dietine Dieting Diocese Egilops Enchant Faculty Fiddle-faddle Fit Flirtation Fox Garnish Hagiography Helter-skelter Hiberno-celtic Hobbledehoy Hugger-mugger Incantation Incanton Jargon Ken Kidney Methodist Mizmaze Mobility Outcant Peculiar Pigwidgeon Precentor Proctor Proser Province Quillet Recant Rhino Round Rum Sail Senate Smart Snipsnap Sonata Spanish-fly Spell Squintifego Squiny Steenkirk Stingo Stout Swash Teh-hee Touch Trangram Vesicatory Virgin Virginal Wapentac Wapentake Whim Whining
Accend Accent Addition Advoyer Alquier Arches-court Archiepiscopal Audience Augmentation Belch Betty Bill Bishop Brogue Bub Bunter Buprestes Butter Canary Cant Cantabrian Cantar Canter Cantharidin Canticle Cantingly Canto Canton Cantonal Cantonize Cantred Canzone Chant Congregation Contraction Cony-catch Cotton Diet Dietine Dieting Diocese Egilops Enchant Faculty Fiddle-faddle Fit Flirtation Fox Garnish Hagiography Helter-skelter Hiberno-celtic Hobbledehoy Hugger-mugger Incantation Incanton Jargon Ken Kidney Methodist Mizmaze Mobility Outcant Peculiar Pigwidgeon Precentor Proctor Proser Province Quillet Recant Rhino Round Rum Sail Senate Smart Snipsnap Sonata Spanish-fly Spell Squintifego Squiny Steenkirk Stingo Stout Swash Teh-hee Touch Trangram Vesicatory Virgin Virginal Wapentac Wapentake Whim Whining
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