(kant) noun
1. An inclination or tipping; a slope or set to one side.
2. A motion that produces a slant or an overturn.
3. A salient angle, as of a bolthead.
4. A slant surface, as one produced by cutting off a corner or edge.
—v.t.
1. To set slantingly; tip up; tilt.
2. To give a bevel to.
3. To throw out or off; also, to jerk; toss.
—v.i.
4. To tilt; slant.
—adjective
1. Oblique; slanting.
2. Having canted sides or corners. [Prob. <OF <Med. L cantus corner, side]

(kant) noun
1. Hypocritical or ostentatious religious talk.
2. Any technical or professional jargon: legal cant.
3. The secret language of thieves, gipsies, beggars, etc.; argot.
4. Any jargon employed for secrecy.
5. Hackneyed phraseology assumed as a fashion or for effect.
6. Whining speech, especially of beggars. See synonyms under HYPOCRISY, SLANG.
—v.t.
1. To say with affected religiousness or in a hypocritical way.
—v.i.
2. To chant; whine, as a beggar.
3. To talk with hypocritical or exaggerated unction, especially about religion.
—adjective Like cant; insincere; hypocritical. [<AF, singing <L cantus song <canere sing]
—cant′er noun

(känt) adjective Scot. & Brit. Dial.
Bold; brisk; lively.