Vocabulary : Canteen to Cantharis

Canteen : A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. ;; The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.
Cantel : See Cantle.
Canter : A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding. ;; A rapid or easy passing over. ;; To move in a canter. ;; To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. ;; One who cants or whines; a beggar. ;; One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
Canterbury : A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. ;; A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc.
Cantered : of Canter

Cantering : of Canter
Cantharidal : Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.
Cantharides : See Cantharis. ;; of Cantharis
Cantharidin : The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.
Cantharis : A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.

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