[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cant \cant\, a.
   of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
   1913 webster

         to introduce and multiply cant words in the most
         ruinous corruption in any language.      --swift.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cant \cant\, v. i.
   1. to speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong
      tone.
      1913 webster

   2. to make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an
      affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice
      hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
      1913 webster

            the rankest rogue that ever canted.   --beau.  fl.
      1913 webster

   3. to use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or
      technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
      1913 webster

            the doctor here,
            when he discourseth of dissection,
            of vena cava and of vena porta,
            the meseraeum and the mesentericum,
            what does he else but cant.           --b. jonson
      1913 webster

            that uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting
            language, if i may so call it.        --bp.
                                                  sanderson.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cant \cant\, v. t. imp.  p. p. canted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   canting.
   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.
      1913 webster

   2. to give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant
      round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
      1913 webster

   3. to cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of
      timber, or from the head of a bolt.
      1913 webster
see also:
canted canting 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cant \cant\, n. of., edge, angle, prof. from l. canthus the
   iron ring round a carriage wheel, a wheel, gr. ? the corner
   of the eye, the felly of a wheel; cf. w. cant the stake or
   tire of a wheel. cf. canthus, canton, cantle.
   1. a corner; angle; niche. obs.
      1913 webster

            the first and principal person in the temple was
            irene, or peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.
                                                  --b. jonson.
      1913 webster

   2. an outer or external angle.
      1913 webster

   3. an inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope
      or bevel; a titl. --totten.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   5. coopering a segment forming a side piece in the head of
      a cask. --knight.
      1913 webster

   6. mech. a segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
      --knight.
      1913 webster

   7. naut. a piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to
      support the bulkheads.
      1913 webster

   cant frames, cant timbers naut., timber at the two ends
      of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
      1913 webster
see also:
canthus canton cantle cant frames cant timbers 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cant \cant\, n. prob. from of. cant, f. chant, singing, in
   allusion to the singing or whining tine of voice used by
   beggars, fr. l. cantus. see chant.
   1. an affected, singsong mode of speaking.
      1913 webster

   2. the idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class,
      or occupation. --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

            the cant of any profession.           --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. the use of religious phraseology without understanding or
      sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not
      felt; hypocrisy.
      1913 webster

            they shall hear no cant from me.      --f. w.
                                                  robertson
      1913 webster

   4. vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by
      gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
      1913 webster
see also:
chant 

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cant \cant\, n. prob. from of. cant, equiv. to l. quantum; cf.
   f. encan, fr. l. in quantum, i.e. "for how much?"
   a call for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "to sell
   their leases by cant." --swift.
   1913 webster

[7] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cant \cant\, v. t.
   to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
   archaic --swift.
   1913 webster

[8] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

can't \can't\
   a colloquial contraction for can not.
   1913 webster

[9] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cant
     n 1: stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless
          repetition syn: buzzword
     2: 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 syn: bank, camber
     3: a characteristic language of a particular group as among
        thieves; "they don't speak our lingo" syn: jargon, slang,
         lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
     4: insincere talk about religion or morals syn: pious
        platitude
     5: two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
        syn: bevel, chamfer
     v : heel over; "the tower is tilting"; "the ceiling is slanting"
         syn: cant over, tilt, slant, pitch
see also:
buzzword bank camber jargon slang lingo 
argot patois vernacular pious platitude bevel 
chamfer cant over tilt slant pitch 

[10] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

216 moby thesaurus words for "cant":
   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, jargon, 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, patois, 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

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