Definition of cant

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Cant (n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.

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Cantlet :: Cantlet (n.) A piece; a fragment; a corner.
Scarce :: Scarce (superl.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.
Leisurable :: Leisurable (a.) Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours.
Nog :: Nog (v. t.) To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork..
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..
Trot :: Trot (v. t.) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering..
Low-thoughted :: Low-thoughted (a.) Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.
Whiteweed :: Whiteweed (n.) A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy..
Hoppo :: Hoppo (n.) A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce..
Cantharidin :: Cantharidin (n.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms..
Cantine :: Cantine (n.) See Canteen.
Lycanthropia :: Lycanthropia (n.) See Lycanthropy, 2..
Snuffle :: Snuffle (n.) An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy..
Cosecant :: Cosecant (n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
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..
Canterbury :: Canterbury (n.) A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc..
Figured :: Figured (a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3..
Mendinant :: Mendinant (n.) A mendicant or begging friar.
Significant :: Significant (n.) That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
Dukeling :: Dukeling (n.) A little or insignificant duke.
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