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In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound.

A drinking between meals. [Obs.]

An obscure road; a way turning from the main road. Sir P. Sidney.

A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.

The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

The broken noise of a goose or a hen.

A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. [Poetic] Tennyson.

See Coal.

Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing. Calking iron, a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc. Their left hand does the calking iron guide. Dryden.

The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.

The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power. [Written also camerlengo and camarlengo.]

Lodging in a camp.

The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement. [Cant, U. S.]

The use of cannon. Burke.

The act or art of using a canoe.

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. Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear thre…

The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel. Wright.