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Cant Hook :: Cant hook () A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc..

Cantilena :: Cantilena (n.) See Cantabile.

Skimp :: Skimp (a.) Scanty.

Cantharides :: Cantharides (pl. ) of Canthari.

Albicant :: Albicant (a.) Growing or becoming white.

Ground :: Ground (n.) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

Alicant :: Alicant (n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain..

Acanthopteri :: Acanthopteri (n. pl.) A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

Hackberry :: Hackberry (n.) A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States..

Significantly :: Significantly (adv.) In a significant manner.

Figured :: Figured (a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3..

Canto :: Canto (n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

Skinch :: Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

Canty :: Canty (a.) Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.

Vesicant :: Vesicant (n.) A vesicatory.

Batfish :: Batfish (n.) A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus..

Passus :: Passus (n.) A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit..

Business :: Business (n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.

Bawbling :: Bawbling (a.) Insignificant; contemptible.

Canting :: Canting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Can.

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