Dictionary: CAN-TA'TION – CANT'LET

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CAN-TA'TION, n.

A singing. [Not used.]

CAN-TEEN', n. [It. cantina.]

A tin vessel used by soldiers for carrying liquor for drink. It is also made of wood in the form of a keg. – Chambers.

CAN'TE-LEUP, n.

A variety of muskmelon.

CANT'ER, n.

  1. A moderate gallop, a Canterbury gallop.
  2. One who cants or whines.

CANT'ER, v.i. [Arm. cantreal or cantren, to run, to rove or ramble, from tossing or leaping, canting. See Cant.]

To move as a horse in a moderate gallop, raising the two fore feet nearly at the same time, with a leap or spring.

CANT'ER, v.t.

To ride upon a canter.

CANT'ER-BU-RY-BELL, n.

A species of Campanula. [See Bell-flower.]

CANT'ER-BU-RY-TALE, n.

A fabulous story; so called from the tales of Chaucer.

CANT'ER-ED, pp.

Ridden upon a canter.

CANT'ER-ING, ppr.

Moving or riding with a moderate gallop.

CAN-THAR'I-DIN, n. [Infra.]

That peculiar substance existing in the Cantharis vesicatoria, which causes vesication. – Thomson.

CAN'THA-RIS, n. [or plur. CAN-THAR'I-DES, Gr. κανθαρις.]

Spanish flies. This fly is nine or ten lines in length, of a shining green color, mixed with azure, and has a nauseous smell. It feeds upon the leaves of trees and shrubs, preferring the ash. These flies, when bruised, are universally used as a vesicatory, or blistering plaster. The largest come from Italy, but the best from Spain.

CANTH'US, n. [Gr. κανθος; D. kant, a corner.]

An angle of the eye; a cavity at the extremities of the eyelids; the greater is next to the nose, the lesser near the temple. – Encyc.

CAN'TI-CLE, n. [Sp. and It. cantico; L. canticum, from canto. See Cant.]

  1. A song. In the plural, Canticles, the Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.
  2. A canto; a division of a song. [Obs.] – Spenser.

CAN'TILE, v.t.

To cut to pieces.

CAN-TI-LE'VER, n. [qu. canterii labrum, the lip of the rafter. Brande.]

In architecture, a piece of wood framed into the front or side of a house, and projecting from it to support the eaves and moldings over them.

CAN'TIL-LATE, v.t. [L. cantillo. See Cant.]

To chant; to recite with musical tones. – M. Stuart.

CAN-TIL-LA'TION, n.

A chanting; recitation with musical modulations.

CANT'ING, ppr.

  1. Throwing with a sudden jerk; tossing.
  2. Speaking with a whine or song-like tone.

CANT'ING-LY, adv.

With a cant.

CANT'ING-NESS, n.

Quality of uttering in cant.

CAN'TION, n.

A song or verses. [Not used.] – Spenser.

CAN'TLE, n. [Arm. chantell; Fr. chanteau, whence echantillon; Eng. scantling.]

A fragment; a piece; a portion. [Obs.] – Shak.

CAN'TLE, v.t.

To cut into pieces; to cut out a piece. [Obs.] – Dryden.

CANT'LET, n.

A piece; a little corner; a fragment. – Dryden.