Part 1604

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A rapid or easy passing over.</def>

<blockquote>A rapid <b>canter</b> in the Times over all the topics. <i>Sir J. Stephen.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Canter</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Can"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cantered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cantering</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To move in a canter.</def>

<h1>Canter</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Can"ter</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.</def>

<h1>Canter</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Cant"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who cants or whines; a beggar.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.</def>

<blockquote>The day when he was a <b>canter</b> and a rebel. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Canterbury</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Can"ter*bur*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas \'85 Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc.</def>

<cs><col>Canterbury ball</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a species of <spn>Campanula</spn> of several varietes, cultivated for its handsome bell-shaped flowers.</cd> -- <col>Canterbury gallop</col>, <cd>a gentle gallop such as was used by pilgrims riding, to Canterbury; a canter. -- Canterbury table, one of the tales which Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers pass away the time.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cantharidal</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Can*thar"*i*dal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; <as>as, <ex>cantharidal</ex> plaster</as>.</def>

<h1>Cantharides</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Can*thar"i*des</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>See <er>cantharis</er>.</def>

<h1>Cantharidin</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Can*thar"i*din</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The active principe of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.</def>

<h1>Cantharis</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Can"tha*ris</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Cantharides</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L., a kind of beetle, esp. the Spanish fly, Gr. <?/.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A beetle (<spn>Lytta, &or; Cantharis, vesicatoria</spn>), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called <altname>Spanish fly</altname>. Many other species of <spn>Lytta</spn>, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See <cref>Blister beetle</cref>, under <er>Blister</er>. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.</def>

<h1>Cant hook</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Cant" hook`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<h1>Canthoplasty</h1> <Xpage=212>

<hw>Can"tho*plas`ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr.<?/, corner of the eye + <?/ to from.]</ety> <fld>(Surg.)</fld> <def>The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.</def>

<h1>Canthus</h1> <Xpage=212>