Canter

( Manege.) A moderate gallop formerly called a Canterbury gallop, said to be derived from the pilgrims riding to Canterbury at this pace. The action is so called when the horse's fore-feet are raised nearly together, with a leap or spring. -A rapid pa ing over anything; as, a canter over the columns of a newspaper. -v.i. To move as a horse in a canter, or easy gallop. -v. a. To ride upon a canter; as, to break from a trot into a canter . Can'ter, n . A whining or canting person; a beggar. -One who speaks in canting language, or makes hypo- critical pretensions to goodne . "The days when he was a canter and a rebel." - Macaulay. Canterbury, ( kān'ter - ber -re,) a sort of table forming a place of deposit for music, books, papers, . Can'terbury, a city, county, and borough, and the Fig . 501. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, ( West Front.) metropolitan see of England, co. Kent, in a fertile valley, watered by the Stour, 53 m. S.E. by E. of London. This