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hest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano. Canto fermo ( Etym: [It.] (Mus.), the plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song.

A song or canto [Obs.] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. Shak.

A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange.

See Cotton flannel.

Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.

ving the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

To divide into cantons or small districts.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.

A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. Milman.

Of or belonging to a cantor. Cantoral staff, the official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers.

Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall. Shipley.

To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. Addison.

active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report for instruc…

A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [Obs.]

as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

A canto or division of a poem [Obs.] Spenser.

The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody.

like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. -- Oriental crape. See Canton crape.