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  • 1Canting — Cant ing, a. Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. {Cant ing*ly}, adv. {Cant ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] {Canting arms}, {Canting heraldry} (Her …

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  • 2Canting arms — Canting Cant ing, a. Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. {Cant ing*ly}, adv. {Cant ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] {Canting arms}, {Canting… …

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  • 3Canting heraldry — Canting Cant ing, a. Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. {Cant ing*ly}, adv. {Cant ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] {Canting arms}, {Canting… …

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  • 4Canting arms — is a technique used in European heraldry whereby the name of the individual or community represented in a coat of arms is translated into a visual pun or rebus. The term probably originally came from the same root as the term cant (originally to… …

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  • 5Canting — Cant ing, n. The use of cant; hypocrisy. [1913 Webster] || …

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  • 6canting — index querulous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 7canting — hypocritical, sanctimonious, Pharisaical (see under HYPOCRISY) …

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  • 8canting arms — plural noun (heraldry) A coat of arms in the form of a rebus, or a visual pun on the bearer s surname • • • Main Entry: ↑cant …

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  • 9Canting keel — A canting keel is a form of sailing ballast, suspended from a rigid canting strut beneath the boat, which can be swung to windward of a boat under sail, in order to counteract the heeling force of the sail. The canting keel must be able to pivot… …

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  • 10Canting Crew — The Canting Crew is an informal name for a group of Ankh Morpork beggars in Terry Pratchett s Discworld series. Too anarchic for the Beggars Guild, which tends to constrain them with rules, they frequently beg from it themselves, and often come… …

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