Canticle

1. n. A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.
2. n. A song; esp. a little song or hymn.
3. n. The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.
4. n. A canto or division of a poem

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.