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the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust. [Cant]

glish universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them. [Cant, Eng.] Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. T. Hughes.

en, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3. [Cant, Eng.] Halliwell.

er, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities. [Cant, Eng.]

Silly talk; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.

creasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a micros…

Not interesting of affecting; insignificant; not belonging to one. [Obs.] Addison.

To reverse or recant, as a previous decision.

Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor. Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility. Collier.

A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment. Cowper.

To sell in large quantities, as stock; to get rid of. [Brokers' Cant, U. S.]

To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said. You can say and unsay things at pleasure. Goldsmith.

To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. [R.] Shak.

To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure. J. Fletcher.

The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use. Pref. to Book of Common Prayer.

r feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael. Cowell. The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St. Hilary next ensuing she was crowned. Holinshed.

The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous. Sir H. Wotton.

To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.

Empty; unfilled; void; vacant. Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude; nor vacuous the space. Milton. That the few may lead selfish and vacuous days. J. Morley.