Definition of cant

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Cant (n.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.

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Entrant :: Entrant (n.) An applicant for admission.
Avoyer :: Avoyer (n.) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.
Lycanthropy :: Lycanthropy (n.) The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.
Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
Mark :: Mark (v. t.) To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing..
Epanorthosis :: Epanorthosis (n.) A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!.
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..
Diastema :: Diastema (n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw..
Cant :: Cant (n.) A corner; angle; niche.
Spined :: Spinebill (n.) Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.
Cantred :: Cantred (n.) Alt. of Cantre.
Canting :: Canting (n.) The use of cant; hypocrisy.
Lycanthropia :: Lycanthropia (n.) See Lycanthropy, 2..
Nog :: Nog (v. t.) To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork..
Bogus :: Bogus (a.) Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit..
Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..
Acantha :: Acantha (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.
Excantation :: Excantation (n.) Disenchantment by a countercharm.
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions..
Significant :: Significant (n.) That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
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