cant piece (kantpes)

In ship - building, one of the pieces of timber secured to the angles of fishes and side trees, to take the place of any piece that may prove deficient. Weale. cant-rail (kant'ral), n. 1. A triangular rail. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] -2. A fire-pole. Hal liwell. [Prov. Eng.] -3. A timber running along the tops of the upright pieces in the sides of the body of a railway-carriage and supporting the roof and roof-sticks. [Eng.] Called in the United States a plate. Car-Builder's Dict. cantraip, cantrap, n. See cantrip. cantred (kan'tred), n. [Also cantref, cantrev, kantry; The principal land measure [of Wales) was the erw, which seems to have contained about the same area as our English acre. Four erws constituted a tyddyn or tenement; 12,800 erws formed the territorial division called a cymwd, and about double that number a cantrev . Edinburgh Rev., CLXV. 75. cantrip, cantrap (kan trip, -trap), n. [Sc., also written cantraip ; origin unknown. According to one conjecture, gandr , witchcraft, + trapp , tramping; according to another, cant2 , in sense of 'charm or incantation,' + Sc. raip =E. rope , a cord, and orig. meaning 'magic cord,' cords knotted in various ways figuring frequently in old spells or charms. Cf. contraption.] 1. A charm; a spell; an incantation. Ramsay. And by some deev'lish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light. IMG:content-3068.png:[graphic] Burns , Tam o' Shanter. IMG:content-3069.png:[blocks in formation] Canton mine in Georgia. cantonize (kan'ton-iz), v . t .; pret. and pp. can -cant-timber (kant'tim"ber), n. In ship - build- tonized, ppr. cantonizing. [ To canton or divide into small districts. Thus was all Ireland cantonized among ten persons of the English nation. Sir J. Davies , State of Ireland. cantonment (kan'tonor kan-ton'ment; in Cantuarian Cantware, pl., the inhabitants of Kent (or Canterbury): see canterbury.] Of or pertaining to Canterbury, especially as the archiepiscopal see of the primate of the Church of England. cantus (kan'tus), n.; pl. cantus. [L.: see chant, canto.] A song or melody; especially, an ecclesiastical melody or style of music. - Cantus Ambrosian us (LL.], the style of church music instituted by Ambrose, the first style of plain-song (which see).Cantus ecclesiastic us [ML.]. (a) Church music in general. (6) Plain-song in particular. (c) A musical rendering of a liturgy, as contrasted with mere reading. - Cantus figuratus [ML.], figurated plain-song, or counterpoint. See canto figurato. - Cantus firm us [ML.], the melody in plain-song (originally given to the tenor voice), or a melody taken as the theme or subject for contrapuntal composition. See canto fermo. - Cantus Greg or i an us [ML.], the style of church music instituted by Gregory the Great, the second style of plain-song. - Cantus mensurabilis [ML.], measured or metrical melody, having all its notes commensurate in duration invented about the twelfth century. Cantus plan us [ML.], plain-song.