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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cant·ing a. Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone.
 -- Cant*ing*ly, adv. -- Cant*ing*ness, n.
 Canting arms, Canting heraldry Her., bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.