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Recantation :: Recantation (n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Expatiate :: Expatiate (v. i.) To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.

Scanted :: Scanted (imp. & p. p.) of Scan.

Wink :: Wink (n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.

Philister :: Philister (n.) A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.

Canton :: Canton (n.) A song or cant.

Cant :: Cant (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.

Cantarro :: Cantarro (n.) A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds..

Notching :: Notching (n.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions..

Hong :: Hong (n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble..

Decant :: Decant (v. t.) To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine..

Descanting :: Descanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descan.

Unspeak :: Unspeak (v. t.) To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay..

Radicant :: Radicant (a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy..

Dominican :: Dominican (n.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins..

Canter :: Canter (n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar.

Undecide :: Undecide (v. t.) To reverse or recant, as a previous decision..

Motion :: Motion (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.

Trot :: Trot (v. t.) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering..

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