What does "chant" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.(Mus.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.
2. 3.To make melody with the voice; to sing. "Chant to the sound of the viol." Amos vi.
3. 4.2. (Mus.) To sing, as in reciting a chant. To chant (or chaunt) horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.
4. 5.Song; melody.
5. 6.(Mus.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
6. 7.A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.
7. 8.Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.] His strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. -- Gregorian chant. See under Gregorian.