Anagrams of: OCTANTS

• a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body; similar to a sextant but with 45 degree calibration

• the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music

• a major division of a long poem

• ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle

• the constellation that includes the southern celestial pole

• A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.

• A kind of coarse woollen blanket.

• the shore of a sea or ocean

• a slope down which sleds may coast

• the area within view

• the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it

• move effortlessly; by force of gravity

• a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)

• any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

• work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

• limit in quality or quantity

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

• (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.

• (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to.

• (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.

• (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.

• To know.

• To seal in a can.

• To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.

• To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).

• To shut up.

• To fire or dismiss an employee.

• To hole the ball.