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e of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury.

Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.

Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] Spelman.

Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed. Burke.

Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.

The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

uor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.

To decant. [Obs.]

The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.

The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble. Grove. Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

One who descants.

Drying; desiccative. -- n.

One who dijudicates. [R.] Wood.

See Descant, n.

Forming part of the same family. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.

A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.

Building; constructing. [R.] Dugard.

Beaming forth; flashing. [R.] Which emicant did this and that way dart. Blackmore.

Disenchantment by a countercharm. [Obs.] Gayton.