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Cammock

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

Camonflet

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.

Camorra

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.

Camp

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

Campagna

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

Campagnol

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

Campaigner

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

Campaned

Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.

Campanero

The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird.

Campanile

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

Campanology

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

Campanula

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

Campanulaceae

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

Campanulaceous

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.

Campanulales

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

campanular

shaped like a bell or campana; campaniform.

Campanularian

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

Campbellite

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

Camper

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

Campfight

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

Camphene

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

Camphine

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

Camphor

To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.

Camphoric

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor.

Campion

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

campmate

someone who lives in the same camp as another.

campong

a native village in Malaysia.

Camptosorus

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

Campus

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

Campylospermous

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

Campylotropous

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

camshaft

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

Can

To know; to understand.

can-do

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.

Canaan

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

Canaanitish

Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.

Canachites

A genus of birds including the spruce grouse Canachites canadensis.

Canada

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.

Canada Canyada

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

Canadian

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

canafistula canafistola

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.

Canaille

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

Canalization

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

canalize

to provide with a canal, as of a city.

Canard

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

Canarese

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

Canary

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

canasta

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.

Canaster

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.

Canavalia

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

Canberra

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

Cancan

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

Cancel

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

Canceleer Cancelier

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

Cancelier

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

Cancellate

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

Cancellation

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

Cancelli

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.

Cancellous

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

Cancer

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.

Cancerate

To grow into a cancer; to become cancerous.

Canceration

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

Cancerite

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

cancerous

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

cancerweed

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

Cancridae

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

Cancriform

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

Cancrine

Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.

Cancrinite

A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.

Cancroid

Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.

Cand

Fluor spar. See Kand.

candela

the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.

candelabra

a branched, ornamental candlestick having several sockets for candles.

Candelabrum

A lamp stand of any sort. A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.

candellila

either of two Mexican shrubs Pedilanthus bracteatus or Pedilanthus pavonis.

Candent

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.

Canderos

An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.

candida

any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.

Candidacy

The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.

Candidate

One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.

Candidating

The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.

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