CPage 61
- English Word Canopy Definition Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.
- English Word Canopy Definition To cover with, or as with, a canopy.
- English Word Canopying Definition of Canopy
- English Word Canorous Definition Melodious; musical.
- English Word Canorousness Definition The quality of being musical.
- English Word Canstick Definition Candlestick.
- English Word Cant Definition A corner; angle; niche.
- English Word Cant Definition An outer or external angle.
- English Word Cant Definition An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
- English Word Cant Definition 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.
- English Word Cant Definition A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- English Word Cant Definition A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
- English Word Cant Definition A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- English Word Cant Definition To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
- English Word Cant Definition To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
- English Word Cant Definition To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
- English Word Cant Definition An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
- English Word Cant Definition The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
- English Word Cant Definition The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
- English Word Cant Definition Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.