CANK.  Dumb.

Cannister.  The head.  To mill his cannister; to break
  his head.

CANNIKIN.  A small can:  also, in the canting sense,
  the plague.

Cant.  An hypocrite, a double-tongue palavering fellow. 
  See palaver.

Cant.  To cant; to toss or throw:  as, Cant a slug into
  your bread room; drink a dram.  Sea wit.

Canticle.  A parish clerk.

Canting.  Preaching with a whining, affected tone, perhaps
  a corruption of chaunting; some derive it from Andrew
  Cant, a famous Scotch preacher, who used that whining
  manner of expression.  Also a kind of gibberish used by
  thieves and gypsies, called likewise pedlar’s French, the
  slang, &c. &c.

CANTERS, or the canting crew.  Thieves, beggars, and
  gypsies, or any others using the canting lingo.  See lingo.

Canterbury story.  A long roundabout tale.

To cap.  To take one’s oath.  I will cap downright; I will
  swear home.  Cant.

To cap.  To take off one’s hat or cap.  To cap the quadrangle;
  a lesson of humility, or rather servility, taught
  undergraduates at the university, where they are obliged to
  cross the area of the college cap in hand, in reverence to
  the fellows who sometimes walk there.  The same ceremony
  is observed on coming on the quarter deck of ships of
  war, although no officer should be on it.

To cap.  To support another’s assertion or tale.  To assist
  a man in cheating.  The file kidded the joskin with sham
  books, and his pall capped; the deep one cheated the
  countryman with false cards, and his confederate assisted
  in the fraud.

Cap acquaintance.  Persons slightly acquainted, or only
  so far as mutually to salute with the hat on meeting.  A
  woman who endeavours to attract the notice of any particular
  man, is said to set her cap at him.

Caper merchant.  A dancing master, or hop mercbant;
  marchand des capriolles.  French term.—­To cut papers; to
  leap or jump in dancing.  See hop merchant.

Capping verses.  Repeating Latin Verses in turn, beginning
  with the letter with which the last speaker left off.

Capon.  A castrated cock, also an eunuch.

CAPRICORNIFIED. Cuckolded, hornified.

Capsize.  To overturn or reverse.  He took his broth till
  he capsized; he drank till he fell out of his chair.  Sea
  term.