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Peccancy :: Peccancy (n.) The quality or state of being peccant.

Negotiation :: Negotiation (n.) Hence, mercantile business; trading..

Henchman :: Henchman (n.) An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.

Incantation :: Incantation (n.) A formula of words used as above.

Hankey-pankey :: Hankey-pankey (n.) Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery..

Cant :: Cant (v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction..

Innuent :: Innuent (a.) Conveying a hint; significant.

Almacantar :: Almacantar (n.) Same as Almucantar.

Cantillate :: Cantillate (v. i.) To chant; to recite with musical tones.

Trachelidan :: Trachelidan (n.) Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.

Cantonize :: Cantonize (v. i.) To divide into cantons or small districts.

Cantharis :: Cantharis (n.) A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine..

Incanton :: Incanton (v. t.) To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community..

Jargon :: "Jargon (n.) Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang..

Dukeling :: Dukeling (n.) A little or insignificant duke.

Scant :: Scant (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

Canteen :: Canteen (n.) A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink..

Use :: Use (v. t.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc..

Carmelite :: Carmelite (n.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar..

Canting :: Canting (n.) The use of cant; hypocrisy.

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