Part 1601

<i>Knight.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A piece of wood laid upon athe deck of a vessel to support the bulkneads.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Cant frames</col>, <col>Cant timbers</col></mcol> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>timber at the two ends of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Cant</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp & p. p.</tt> <er>Canted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. N.</tt> <er>Canting</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To incline; to set at an angle; to titl over; to tip upon the edge; <as>as, to <ex>cant</ex> a cask; to <ex>cant</ex> a ship.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To give a sudden turn or new direction to; <as>as, to <ex>cant</ex> round a stick of timber; to <ex>cant</ex> a football.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.</def>

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<hw>Cant</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. from OF. <ets>cant</ets>, F. <ets>chant</ets>, singing, in allusion to the singing or whining tine of voice used by beggars, fr. L. <ets>cantus</ets>. See <er>Chant</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An affected, singsong mode of speaking.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.</def>

<i>Goldsmith.</i>

<blockquote>The <b>cant</b> of any profession. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.</def>

<blockquote>They shall hear no <b>cant</b> from<?/. <i>F. W. Robertson</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves. tramps, or beggars.</def>

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<hw>Cant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.</def>

<blockquote>To introduce and multiply <b>cant</b> words in the most ruinous corruption in any language. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Cant</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, sinsong tone.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; <as>as, a <ex>canting</ex> fanatic</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The rankest rogue that ever <b>canted</b>. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical termes; to talk with an affectation of learning.</def>

<blockquote>The doctor here, When he discqurseth of dissection, Of vena cava and of vena porta, The meser\'91um and the mesentericum, What does he else but <b>cant</b>. <i>B. Jonson</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>That uncouth affected garb of speech, or <b>canting</b> hanguage, if I may so call it. <i>Bp. Sanderson.</i></blockquote>

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