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Cant :: Cant (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant..

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

Indicant :: Indicant (a.) Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating..

Beck :: Beck (n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command..

Bassorin :: Bassorin (n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses..

Replicant :: Replicant (n.) One who replies.

Secant :: Secant (a.) Cutting; divivding into two parts; as, a secant line..

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..

Canton :: Canton (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.

Cosecant :: Cosecant (n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

Enchantment :: Enchantment (n.) The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation..

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..

Amphoric :: Amphoric (a.) Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance..

Incantatory :: Incantatory (a.) Dealing by enchantment; magical.

Franciscan :: Franciscan (n.) A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit..

Cantoning :: Cantoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canto.

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion..

Scrimp :: Scrimp (a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.

Avoyer :: Avoyer (n.) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.

Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..

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