Cant: alternatives and connections

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

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The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

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The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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of Talk

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The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.

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To display; to spread.

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An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

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An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

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A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

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A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

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Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of suc…

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An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

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The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.

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Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.

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Language; speech; dialect.

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A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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imp. of Sling. Slung.

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To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

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A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

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Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernac…

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