Definition of cant

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Cant (v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning..

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Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points..
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..
Skinch :: Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.
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..
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..
Duan :: Duan (n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.
Lycanthropous :: Lycanthropous (a.) Lycanthropic.
Beckon :: Beckon (v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand..
Canter :: Canter (n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar.
Patter :: Patter (n.) The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter..
Cantel :: Cantel (n.) See Cantle.
Filefish :: Filefish (n.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper..
Cantabrian :: Cantabrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.
Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants..
Acanthaceous :: Acanthaceous (a.) Armed with prickles, as a plant..
Lacuna :: Lacuna (n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane..
Tradescantia :: Tradescantia (n.) A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
Chit :: Chit (n.) A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal..
Bare :: Bare (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture..
Petit :: Petit (a.) Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty.
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