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Definition of Cantrip
1. a magic spell [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantrip
Literary usage of Cantrip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"As it was, he turned half round and said something to Lord cantrip which was ...
He has as much idea of giving up as you or I have," said Lord cantrip to ..."
2. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most (1878)
"... cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light— By which heroic Tain was
able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; . ..."