Crossword clues for chanting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chanting \Chant"ing\ (ch[.a]nt"[i^]ng), n. Singing, esp. as a chant is sung.
Chanting falcon (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Chant \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.]
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To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music.
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To celebrate in song.
The poets chant in the theaters.
--Bramhall. (Mus.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.
Wiktionary
n. Singing, especially as a chant is sung. vb. (present participle of chant English)
WordNet
n. the act of singing in a monotonous tone [syn: intonation]
Wikipedia
- Redirect Chant
Usage examples of "chanting".
He felt something calling to him in that writhing horror, in the ragged chanting that still went on--"KILL!
Lead, the chanting Sangrans seemed to be demanding, lead and we will follow.
The sound of people chanting his name awakened old echoes, buoyed him, but the.
Killers and guerrillas alike were being torn to bloody fragments by cleavers and nails and teeth, and all the while, like one crazed organism, tens of thousands of throats were chanting his name with one mighty voice.
They did manage, by dint of much muttering and chanting, to clear the curse out of the kitchen and larder so that some sort of dinner was possible that night.
The dark-robed figures were chanting softly, in what the more experienced townsfolk recognized as quaintly accented Sabirn, a hymn to Deese of the Forge—with proper reference to his Lady, Kula of the Wood.
He got up and went to the fire, waving his other hand in a circle above the packet and chanting softly in a strange tongue.
All the rest stood in a small knot further back, chanting along with Eloti.
He closed his eyes and began silently chanting the meditative formulas while Ziya watched him, fascinated.
The dwarves took up a rhythmic chanting, an ancient tune that had once echoed off the silvery halls of their lost homeland.
Dendybar sat cross-legged within the magic circle, chanting himself into a deep meditative trance and not even aware of Sydney's actions as she completed the preparations.
Back in the camp, Valric stood alone with Torlin inside the ring of his people, chanting and dancing through the ultimate ritual of his station, summoning the power of his tribe's Spiritual Beast.
Even Wulfgar, so shaken a short time before when he had heard the chanting of the shaman, began to relax.
Before Entreri and Sydney even got close enough for a good view of the encampment, ritualistic chanting told them that this was no caravan from Nesme.
The solitude of the caverns weighed heavily on the dwarf, who had heard them ring out in the common cheering and chanting of ten-thousand dwarves.