Crossword-Solution: DESCANT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Descant | v. i. | Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song. |
| Descant | v. i. | The upper voice in part music. |
| Descant | v. i. | The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble. |
| Descant | v. i. | A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments. |
| Descant | v. i. | To sing a variation or accomplishment. |
| Descant | v. i. | To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DESCANT | anagram | DECANTS, SCANTED |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DESCANT (5)
The housekeeper waited unmoved till there fell a moment's break in his descant; and then, “You'd better drink it before it gets cold,” she observed again, impassively.
Romantic Wyoming! could none be found Of all that rove thy Eden groves among, To wake a native harp's untutored sound, And give thy tale of wo the voice of song? Oh! if description's cold and nerveless tongue From stranger harps such hallowed strains could call, How doubly sweet the descant wild had rung, From one who, lingering round thy ruined wall, Had plucked thy mourning flowers and wept thy timeless fall.
Scaly-conscience, and a knot of gentlemen from the town of Shun-repentance, to descant upon the inestimable advantages resulting from the safety of our baggage.
Was personal happiness the aim and object of their ambition? I shall not descant on the vulgar topics of the misery of kings; but I may surely observe, that their condition, of all others, is the most pregnant with fear, and the least susceptible of hope.
Ignorant clodpoles, when once entranced by the grand Mesmeric fluid, could spout philosophy diviner than Plato ever wrote, descant upon the mysteries of the mind with more eloquence and truth than the profoundest metaphysicians the world ever saw, and solve knotty points of divinity with as much ease as waking men could undo their shoe-buckles! During the first twelve years of the present century, little was heard of Animal Magnetism in any country of Europe.
Quotes with DESCANT (3)
how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant. Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall. Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it.
The question haunted me, and the real answer came, as answers often do, not in the canyon but at an unlikely time and in an unexpected place, flying over the canyon at thirty thousand feet on my way to be a grandmother. My mind on other things, intending only to glance out, the exquisite smallness and delicacy of the river took me completely by surprise. In the hazy light of early morning, the canyon lay shrouded, the river flecked with glints of silver, reduced to a thin lin…
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless lig…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).