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Cant :: Cant (n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant..

Cantabrigian :: Cantabrigian (n.) A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England..

Chit :: Chit (n.) A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal..

Desiccant :: Desiccant (a.) Drying; desiccative.

Decanter :: Decanter (n.) One who decants liquors.

Canton :: Canton (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement..

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

Amphoric :: Amphoric (a.) Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance..

Butterfish :: Butterfish (n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand..

Cantle :: Cantle (v. t.) To cut in pieces; to cut out from.

Local :: Local (n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published..

Hackberry :: Hackberry (n.) A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States..

Possessioner :: Possessioner (n.) An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars..

Canty :: Canty (a.) Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.

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.

Abdicant :: Abdicant (a.) Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.

Vesicatory :: Vesicatory (n.) A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.

Unsay :: Unsay (v. t.) To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said..

Exiguity :: Exiguity (n.) Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

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