Definition of cant

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Cant (v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone..

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Lubricate :: Lubricate (v. t.) To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow..
Change :: Change (v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.
Cantonment :: Cantonment (n.) A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters..
Void :: Void (a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table..
Anacanths :: Anacanths (n. pl.) A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod..
Applaud :: Applaud (v. t.) To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign..
Dole :: Dole (n.) That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance..
Acantha :: Acantha (n.) A spine or prickly fin.
Acanthocephala :: Acanthocephala (n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines..
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..
Meloe :: Meloe () A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil..
Wink :: Wink (n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
Werewolf :: Werewolf (n.) A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct..
Alicant :: Alicant (n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain..
Marcantant :: Marcantant (n.) A merchant.
Lubricator :: Lubricator (n.) A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery..
Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..
Decani :: Decani (a.) Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side..
Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion..
Cantonal :: Cantonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.
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