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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Căn’ti-cle, n.

noun

(kăn’ti-kl), n.; pl. CĂN'TI CLES. [Lat. canticulum, a little song, sonnet, dim. of canticum, song, from cantus singing, from canere, to sing.]

  1. A little song. Bacon.
  2. (pl.) The Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.
  3. A canto or division of a song. [Obs.] Spenser.