Cant
Definition of Cant
n. | 1. | A corner; angle; niche. | | 2. | An outer or external angle. | | 3. | An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl. | | 4. | A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant. | | 5. | (Coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. | | 6. | (Mech.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel. | | 7. | (Naut.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads. | v. t. | 1. | To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship. | | 2. | To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football. | | 3. | To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt. | n. | 1. | An affected, singsong mode of speaking. | | 2. | The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. | | 3. | The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.They shall hear no cant from me. - F. W. Robertson | | 4. | Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars. | a. | 1. | Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar. | v. i. | 1. | To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone. | | 2. | To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. | | 3. | To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning. | n. | 1. | A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. | v. t. | 1. | to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction. |
Related Words
Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, L, Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, about ship, affectation, affectedness, alert, angle, angularity, animate, animated, apex, argot, ascend, babble, back and fill, bank, be hypocritical, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bend, bifurcation, bight, blandish, box off, break, bring about, bring round, cant round, careen, cast, cast about, change course, change the heading, chevron, cipher, climb, code, coin, colloquialize, come about, corner, crank, crook, crotchet, cryptogram, decline, deflection, descend, dialect, diction, dictionary, dip, dogleg, double Dutch, double a point, drop, elbow, ell, empty gesture, fall, fall away, fall off, false piety, falseness, fetch about, fork, furcation, garble, gay, gibberish, gift of tongues, give lip service, give mouth honor, glossolalia, go about, go downhill, go uphill, gobbledygook, goody-goodiness, grade, gybe, heave round, heel, hook, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, idiom, inclination, incline, inflection, insincerity, jargonize, jibe, jibe all standing, jumble, keel, keen, knee, language, lay down, lean, leaning, leaning tower, lexicon, lie along, lingo, lip service, list, mealymouthedness, miss stays, mouth, mouthing, mumbo jumbo, mummery, noise, nook, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, palaver, patter, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phraseology, pidgin, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, pitch, play the hypocrite, ply, point, pretension, put about, put back, quoin, rake, recline, reek of piety, religionism, religiosity, render lip service, retreat, rise, round a point, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, scatology, scramble, secret language, self-righteousness, sham, sheer, shelve, shift, shop, sidle, slang, slant, slew, slope, snivel, snuffle, snuffling, soft soap, soft-soap, speak, speech, spirited, sprightly, swag, sway, sweet talk, sweet-talk, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, taboo language, tack, talk, throw about, tilt, tip, tokenism, tower of Pisa, turn, turn back, unction, unctuousness, uprise, use language, veer, vernacular, vertex, vivacious, vocabulary, vulgar language, wear, wear ship, wind, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag
|
Browse
Canonical punishments Canonical sins Canonically Canonicalness Canonicals Canonicate Canonicity Canonist Canonistic Canonization Canonize Canonry Canonship canopic jar canopied Canopus Canopy Canorous Canorousness Canstick -Cant- Cant frames Cant hook Cantab Cantabile Cantabrian Cantabrigian Cantalever Cantalever bridge Cantaloupe Cantankerous Cantar Cantata Cantation Cantatory Cantatrice Canted Canted column Canteen Cantel Canter
|