Of camel's hair.

A kind of rich, soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.

A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like.

A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.

See Comrade.

Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.

The science of finance or public revenue.

To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

A vaulting or arching over.

The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power.

A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II.

A light, loose dress or robe.

A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack. An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado.

One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.

A short dressing jacket for women.

A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.

Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined.

See Camass.

A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.

A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners.

A secret organization formed at Naples, Italy, early in the 19th century, and used partly for political ends and partly for practicing extortion, violence, etc.

Depressed; flattened.

Awry.

Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.

To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.

An open level tract of country; especially /Campagna di Roma./ The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.

A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.

To serve in a campaign.

One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

The campaign of a candidate to be elected.

A church bell.

Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.

The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird.

Bells.

Open country.

Bell-shaped.

A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.

Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.

One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.

The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.

A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower.

A natural family of flowering plants, which in some classifications includes the Lobeliaciae.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Campanulace/) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

an order of plants which includes the Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Stylidiaceae; Calyceraceae; and Compositae.

shaped like a bell or campana; campaniform.

A hydroid of the family Campanularid/, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothec/.

Bell-shaped.

A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.

One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp, especially who sleeps in a wilderness for recreation.

Relating to an open field; growing in a field, or open ground.

A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.

One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

An old spelling of Camphor.

See Cymene.

See Borneol.

To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.

Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.

A salt of camphoric acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from camphor.

Lodging in a camp.

A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.

someone who lives in the same camp as another.

a native village in Malaysia.

a genus comprising the carpenter ants.

a folding stool.

a classification used in some esp. former systems for plants usually placed in the genus Asplenium.

The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

a genus of epiphytic ferns of tropical America.

an alternative genus classification for the cactus wrens.

Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.

Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

a shaft that has cams attached to it, forming part of a mechanical device.

See Camis.

See Barwood.

To know; to understand.

See under Buoy, n.

having an eager willingness to accept and overcome challenges; as, a can-do kind of person; the city's indomitable optimism and can-do spirit.

an ancient country is southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

A zealot.

Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.

A genus of birds including the spruce grouse Canachites canadensis.

A country in North America, bordering the United States on the north. It is a federation which includes English-speaking provinces and the French-speaking Province of Quebec.

A small ca/on; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.

Of or pertaining to Canada. A native or inhabitant of Canada.

a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree (Cassia fistula) having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; it grows in tropical Asia, Central and South America, and Australia.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

A little can or cup.

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

A minute canal.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.

to provide with a canal, as of a city.

A sofa or divan.

An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.

a form of rummy using two decks and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to meld groups of seven of the same rank.

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.

a genus of herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics.

An amino acid found in the jack bean.

The capital city of Australia. Population (2000) = 307,700.

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.

To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.

Cancellarean.

Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.

Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.

The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.

Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

To grow into a cancer; to become cancerous.

The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.

Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.

Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.

a sage of eastern U. S. (Salvia lyrata).

a natural family including many of the best known edible crabs.

Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.