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Grisons :: Grisons (n. pl.) The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.

Fit :: Fit (n.) In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus..

Tanka :: Tanka (n.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia.

Sail :: Sail (n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton..

Duan :: Duan (n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

Cantor :: Cantor (n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.

Canton :: Canton (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division..

Cantoned :: Cantoned (imp. & p. p.) of Canto.

Canton :: Canton (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble..

Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melod.

Canton :: Canton (n.) A song or cant.

Passus :: Passus (n.) A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit..

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..

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

Cantoned :: Cantoned (a.) Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster..

Landamman :: Landamman (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.

Cantoral :: Cantoral (a.) Of or belonging to a cantor.

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

Bernese :: Bernese (a.) Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants..

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