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Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage. [Written also bye-end.] "Profit or some other by-end." L'Estrange.

Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.

One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.

a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera. -- Panoramic, or Pantascopic, camera, a photographic camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in photograph…

See Cantabile.

Same as Cantalever.

A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief. [Written also cantraip.] [Scot.]

A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice.

In a free, fantastic style.

A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper.

A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch] We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. Smollett. If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. Sir W. Scott.

he catch. [Archaic] Addison. The common and the canon law . . . lie at catch, and wait advantages one againt another. T. Fuller.

Sake; interest; advantage. [Obs.] I did it not for his cause. 2 Cor. vii. 12.

n two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. My high charms work. Shak.

Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.

To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around. I circumvented whom I could not gain. Dryden.

serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.