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- Cant - n. - A corner; angle; niche.
- Cant - n. - An outer or external angle.
- Cant - n. - An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
- 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.
- Cant - n. - A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Cant - n. - A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
- Cant - n. - A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- Cant - v. t. - To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
- Cant - v. t. - To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
- Cant - v. t. - To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
- Cant - n. - An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
- Cant - n. - The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
- Cant - n. - The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
- Cant - n. - Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
- Cant - a. - Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
- Cant - v. i. - To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
- Cant - v. i. - To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
- Cant - v. i. - To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
- Cant - n. - A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
- Cant - v. t. - to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
- Cant hook - - A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.
- Cantab - n. - A Cantabrigian.
- Cantabile - a. - In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.
- Cantabile - n. - A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.
- Cantabrian - a. - Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.
- Henchman - n. - An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.
- Jargonist - n. - One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang.
- Flash - n. - Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
- Philister - n. - A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.
- Backare - interj. - Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
- Bogus - a. - Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
- Sough - v. i. - A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
- Cantatory - a. - Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing.
- Plum - n. - A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.
- Whiggamore - n. - A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.
- Patter - n. - The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.
- Cant - v. t. - To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
- Cant - v. t. - To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
- Jargon - n. - Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.
- Buckeye - n. - A cant name for a native in Ohio.
- Pigwidgeon - n. - A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy.
- Lamb - n. - A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.
- Placket - n. - A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.
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- G5603 ᾠδή - 5603 ᾠδή - ᾨΔΉ - - ōidḗ - o-day' - from ᾄδω; a chant or "ode" (the general term for any words sung; while ὕμνος denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and ψαλμός still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation):--song. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H328 אַט - 328 אַט - אַט - - ʼaṭ - at - from an unused root perhaps meaning to move softly; (as a noun) a necromancer (from their soft incantations), (as an adverb) gently; charmer, gently, secret, softly. - Adverb - heb
- H2310 חָדֵל - 2310 חָדֵל - חָדֵל - - châdêl - khaw-dale' - from חָדַל; vacant, i.e. ceasing or destitute; he that forbeareth, frail, rejected. - Adjective - heb
- G2154 εὔσημος - 2154 εὔσημος - ΕὔΣΗΜΟΣ - - eúsēmos - yoo'-say-mos - from εὖ and the base of σημαίνω; well indicated, i.e. (figuratively) significant:--easy to be understood. - Adjective - greek
- H3669 כְּנַעַנִי - 3669 כְּנַעַנִי - כְּנַעַנִי - - Kᵉnaʻanîy - ken-ah-an-ee' - patrial from כְּנַעַן; a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans); Canaanite, merchant, trafficker. - - x-pn
- H3908 לַחַשׁ - 3908 לַחַשׁ - לַחַשׁ - - lachash - lakh'-ash - from לָחַשׁ; properly, a whisper, i.e. by implication, (in a good sense) a private prayer, (in a bad one) an incantation; concretely, an amulet; charmed, earring, enchantment, orator, prayer. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3909 לָט - 3909 לָט - לָט - - lâṭ - lawt - a form of לָאט or else participle from לוּט; properly, covered, i.e. secret; by implication, incantation; also secrecy or (adverb) covertly; enchantment, privily, secretly, softly. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4626 מַעַר - 4626 מַעַר - מַעַר - - maʻar - mah'-ar - from עָרָה; a nude place, i.e. (literally) the pudenda, or (figuratively) a vacant space; nakedness, proportion. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4627 מַעֲרָב - 4627 מַעֲרָב - מַעֲרָב - - maʻărâb - mah-ar-awb' - from עָרַב, in the sense of trading; traffic; by implication, mercantile goods; market, merchandise. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G3178 μέθη - 3178 μέθη - ΜΈΘΗ - - méthē - meth'-ay - apparently a primary word; an intoxicant, i.e. (by implication) intoxication:--drunkenness. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H5173 נַחַשׁ - 5173 נַחַשׁ - נַחַשׁ - - nachash - nakh'-ash - from נָחַשׁ; an incantation or augury; enchantment. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G4007 περ - 4007 περ - ΠΕΡ - - per - per - from the base of πέραν; an enclitic particle significant of abundance (thoroughness), i.e. emphasis; much, very or ever:--(whom-)soever. - - greek
- H7332 רָזוֹן - 7332 רָזוֹן - רָזוֹן - - râzôwn - raw-zone' - from רָזָה; thinness; leanness, [idiom] scant. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G4980 σχολάζω - 4980 σχολάζω - ΣΧΟΛΆΖΩ - - scholázō - skhol-ad'-zo - from σχολή; to take a holiday, i.e. be at leisure for (by implication, devote oneself wholly to); figuratively, to be vacant (of a house):--empty, give self. - Verb - greek
- H7941 שֵׁכָר - 7941 שֵׁכָר - שֵׁכָר - - shêkâr - shay-kawr' - from שָׁכַר; an intoxicant, i.e. intensely alcoholic liquor; strong drink, [phrase] drunkard, strong wine. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G4608 σίκερα - 4608 σίκερα - ΣΊΚΕΡΑ - - síkera - sik'-er-ah - of Hebrew origin (שֵׁכָר); an intoxicant, i.e. intensely fermented liquor:--strong drink. - Noun Neuter - greek
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