Definition of cant

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Cant (n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation..

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Impeccant :: Impeccant (a.) Sinless; impeccable.
Exsiccant :: Exsiccant (a.) Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
Charade :: Charade (n.) A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations..
Canted :: Canted (a.) Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window..
Scarce :: Scarce (superl.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.
Mendinant :: Mendinant (n.) A mendicant or begging friar.
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..
Cant :: Cant (n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
Bawbling :: Bawbling (a.) Insignificant; contemptible.
Low-thoughted :: Low-thoughted (a.) Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.
Lycanthropy :: Lycanthropy (n.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal..
Consignificative :: Consignificative (a.) Consignificant; jointly significate.
Surmise :: Surmise (n.) A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy..
Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.
Skinch :: Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.
Lycanthropy :: Lycanthropy (n.) The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.
Pygmy :: Pygmy (n.) Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf..
Cant :: Cant (v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction..
Incantation :: Incantation (n.) A formula of words used as above.
Lubricator :: Lubricator (n.) A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery..
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