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a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition

heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

insincere talk about religion or morals

a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition

heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

insincere talk about religion or morals

A corner; angle; niche.

An outer or external angle.

An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.

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.

A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.

A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.

A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.

To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.

To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.

To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.

An affected, singsong mode of speaking.

The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.

The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.

Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.

Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.

To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.

To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.

To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.

A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.

to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.

A corner; angle; niche.

An outer or external angle.

An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.

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.

A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.

A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.

A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.

To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.

To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.

To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.

An affected, singsong mode of speaking.

The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.

The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.

Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.

Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.

To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.

To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.

To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.

A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.

to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.

The words and phrases used by a certain profession, party, sect, etc.; the use of certain phrases and forms of speech without sincerity, especially the insincere use of sacred words; a slope; an inclination.

To give a tilt or slant to.

To speak in a whining voice, or with an assumed or hypocritical tone; make whining pretensions to goodness; to lean.

To talk in an affectedly solemn or hypocritical way.

A hypocritical or affected style of speech: the language peculiar to a sect: odd or peculiar talk of any kind.

(orig.) An edge or corner: an inclination from the level: a toss or jerk.

To turn on the edge or corner: to tilt or toss suddenly.

An inclination from the level; a toss.

Hypocritical language, or that peculiar to a sect.

To speak with a whine, or hypocritically.

To tilt or incline.

An inclination or tipping; a slant.

To talk with affected religiousness; speak in a hypocritical way.

Formal, ostentatious, religious talk.

Any technical or professional phraseology.

Of the nature of cant.

A whining sing-song manner of speaking, especially that which is affected; a mode of speaking peculiar to a certain seat or party; generally, affectation of speech, as when one says or professes what he does not sincerely think, believe, or feel.

An external angle; an inclination from a horizontal line; a thrust; a jerk.

To tilt over; to incline.

To speak whiningly, peculiarly, or insincerely.

To speak in a whining tone of voice.

To pitch forward; to place upon the edge, as a cask; to jerk; to throw; among carpen., to cut off an angle from a square piece of timber.

An inclination from a horizontal line; a thrust; a push.

n. [Welsh] An angle;—an inclination from a horizontal line;—a push, or other impulse, with a sudden jerk.

n. [Latin] An affected mode of speaking;—a word or phrase hackneyed or peculiar;—whining pretensions;—the jargon of gypsies and thieves.

A corrupt dialect used by beggars and vagabonds; a form of speaking peculiar to some certain class or body of men; a whining pretension to goodness; barbarous jargon; auction.