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Chanting   /tʃˈæntɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Chanting  n.  Singing, esp. as a chant is sung.
Chanting falcon (Zool.), an African falcon (Melierax canorus or musicus). The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.



verb
Chant  v. t.  (past & past part. chanted; pres. part. chanting)  
1.
To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. "The cheerful birds... do chant sweet music."
2.
To celebrate in song. "The poets chant in the theaters."
3.
(Mus.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.



Chant  v. i.  
1.
To make melody with the voice; to sing. "Chant to the sound of the viol."
2.
(Mus.) To sing, as in reciting a chant.
To chant horses or To chant horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter.






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"Chanting" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon its race, The shuttle whirs the woof, The people hum from floor to roof, With Babel tongue. The fountain in the basin plays, The chanting organ echoes clear, An awful chorus 'tis to hear, ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray

... come among us to pass a few days. Even in the presence of strangers he dared to be a father, and used to join us in our sports. I well remember our processions, in which my sisters were the clergy, I the rector, and the author of 'Athaliah,' chanting with us, ...
— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli

... the mystery was solved; I saw the Unknown! While my eyes were fixed upon a certain bush before me, the singer incautiously ventured too near the top of a twig, and I saw him plainly, standing almost upright, and vehemently chanting his fantasia, opening his mouth very wide with every call. I knew him at once, the rogue! from having read of him; he was the yellow-breasted chat. It was well, indeed, that I happened to be looking at that very spot, and that I was quick in my ...
— A Bird-Lover in the West • Olive Thorne Miller

... dugout, driven by half-a-dozen paddles in the hands of lusty natives, came racing down stream. As the canoe drew abreast of us, the paddlers chanting a barbaric chorus, there was a sudden swirl in the water and the object which I had taken for a log abruptly dropped out ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

... better at some things than at others,' said Miss Edith, critically. 'In the chanting the boys' voices are good, and the tenor voices are good; but the bass is too musical. You hear that it is the organ. And ...
— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black


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