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Chant  , n.[F. chant, fr. L. cantus singing, song, fr. canere to sing. See Chant, v. t.]
 1. Song; melody.
2. (Mus.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are
sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
3. A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.
 4. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.]
His strange face, his strange chant.

Macaulay.
 Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal [F.], in old French
poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a
concluding stanza. -- each of these six
parts ending with a common refrain. -- Gregorian chant. See under Gregorian.
 
Chant  , v. i. 1. To
make melody with the voice; to sing. "Chant to the sound
of the viol." Amos vi. 5.
 2.
(Mus.) To sing, as in
reciting a chant.
To chant (or chaunt) horses,
to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in
selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.
 
Chant   (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chanted;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Chanting.]
 [F. chanter, fr. L.
cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.] 1.
To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
 
The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music.

Spenser.
 2. To celebrate in song.
 
The poets chant in the theaters.

Bramhall.
 3. (Mus.) To sing or recite after the manner of
a chant, or
to a tune
called a chant.

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could convey the idea of it. I seemed to hear instruments of celestial sweetness make harmony in my old heart. With the solemn accords of a funeral chant there seemed to mingle the subdued melody of a song of love; for my soul blended into one feeling the grave sadness of the present with the familiar graces of the past. I cannot tell whether we had remained a long time at the tomb of Clementine before Madame de Gabry arose. We passed through the

The party preserved silence, interrupted only by the monotonous and murmured chant of a Gaelic song, sung in a kind of low recitative by the steersman, and by the dash of the oars, which the notes seemed to regulate, as they dipped to them in cadence. The light, which they now approached more nearly, assumed a broader, redder, and more irregular splendour. It appeared plainly to be a large fire, but whether kindled upon an island or

Maruja had struck into a little trot; her lithe body swaying from side to side, her little feet straight as an arrow before her; accompanying herself with a quaint musical chant , which she obligingly explained had been taught her as a child by Pereo. They stopped only at the hedge, where she had that morning encountered the tramp. There is little doubt that the rest of the party was disconcerted:

everybody knew my grandfather was an M.D., and his father a D.D.; and his father came from England, I never could come at the truth of his origin; but he was either a great mer chant in London, or a great country lawyer, or the youngest son of a bishop.� �Here is a true American genealogy for you,� said Marmaduke, laughing. �It does very well till you get across the water, where, as everything is obscure, it is certain to deal in the superlative. You are sure

borders of the marsh-land; for they will tell him that on stormy nights there speaks a deep voice from the sea, calling the dead monks to rise from their forgotten graves, and chant a mass for the souls of the men of the town of seven towers. Clothed in long glittering white, they move with slowly pacing feet around the Abbey's grass-grown aisles, and the music of their prayers is heard above the screaming of the storm. And to this I also can bear witness, for I have seen the passing of their shrouded forms behind
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