Word Meanings - CANTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• CANTON FLANNEL
  See FLANNEL
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• CANTONIZE
  To divide into cantons or small districts.
• CANTOR
  A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. Milman.
• LOYAL
  1. Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance. Welcome, sir John ! But why come you in arms -To help King Edward
• CANTO
  The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano. Canto fermo ( Etym: , the plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song. (more info) 1. One of the chief divisions of a long poem;
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• LOYALIST
  A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.
• CONTEMN
  To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden. Syn. -- To despise; scorn; disdain; spurn;
• CANTORAL
  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.
• CANTORIS
  Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall. Shipley.
• WRITE
  to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material
• CANTONMENT
  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. Note: When troops are sheltered in huts or quartered in the houses of the people during
• CANTONAL
  Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.
• LOYALTY
  The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc. He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love
• CONTEMNINGLY
  Contemptuously.
• LOYALNESS
  Loyalty. Stow.
• CANTON CRAPE
  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.
• CANTONED
  Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• UNWRITE
  To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.
• OUTWRITE
  To exceed or excel in writing.
• INCANTON
  To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. Addison.
• DISLOYALLY
  In a disloyal manner.