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Abjuration :: Abjuration (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy..

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.

Cantalever :: Cantalever (n.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like..

Dominican :: Dominican (n.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins..

Ground :: Ground (n.) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

Jargonist :: Jargonist (n.) One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang.

Hoppo :: Hoppo (n.) A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce..

Secant :: Secant (a.) Cutting; divivding into two parts; as, a secant line..

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..

Cantref :: Cantref (n.) A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales..

Marcantant :: Marcantant (n.) A merchant.

Blank :: Blank (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant..

Motion :: Motion (v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat..

Adventure :: Adventure (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

Bear''s-breech :: Bear's-breech (n.) See Acanthus, n., 1..

Canton Crape :: Canton crape () A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape..

Small :: Small (superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business..

Peccant :: Peccant (a.) Wrong; defective; faulty.

Whiggamore :: Whiggamore (n.) A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.

Scant :: Scant (v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants..

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