Definition of "descants" []

• Plural form of descant. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descant. (verb)

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• "The choir director [I bet most grade schools have had this position cut from their budgets long ago] preferred the term descants to soprano, or at least used it as often if not more."
• "I was woken by a chorus of the massed donkeys of Arslanbob with descants by the cockerel in the yard."
• "Is the old gentleman non compos? what's all this stuff he descants upon so freely, of scholars, and classics, and Homer, and Horace? '"