Camper (n.) One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.
Campestral (a.) Alt. of Campestrian
Campestrian (a.) Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.
Camptight (n.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
Camphene (n.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.
Camphine (n.) Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.
Camphire (n.) An old spelling of Camphor.
Camphogen (n.) See Cymene.
Camphol (n.) See Borneol.
Camphor (n.) A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.
Camphor (n.) A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.
Camphor (v. t.) To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.
Camphoraceous (a.) Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.
Camphorate (v. t.) To impregnate or treat with camphor.
Camphorate (n.) A salt of camphoric acid.
Camphorate () Alt. of Camporated
Camporated () Combined or impregnated with camphor.
Camphoric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor.
Camphretic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from camphor.
Camping (n.) Lodging in a camp.
Camping (n.) A game of football.
Campion (n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.
Campus (n.) The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.
Campylospermous (a.) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.
Campylotropous (a.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.
Camus (n.) See Camis.
Camwood (n.) See Barwood.
Can () an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]
Can (n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.
Can (n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.
Canned (imp. & p. p.) of Can
Canning (p. pr. &vb. n.) of Can
Can (v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans
Could (imp.) of Can
Can (v. t. & i.) To know; to understand.
Can (v. t. & i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence.
Can (v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.
Canaanite (n.) A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.
Canaanite (n.) A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
Canaanite (n.) A zealot.
Canaanitish (a.) Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.
Ca–ada (n.) A small ca–on; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.
Canada (n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.
Canadian (a.) Of or pertaining to Canada.
Canadian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada.
Canaille (n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
Canaille (n.) Shorts or inferior flour.
Canakin (n.) A little can or cup.
Canal (n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
Canal (n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
Canal coal () See Cannel coal.
Canaliculate (a.) Alt. of Canaliculated
Canaliculated (a.) Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
Canaliculi (pl. ) of Canaliculus
Canaliculus (n.) A minute canal.
Canalization (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
Canard (n.) 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 (a.) Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.
Canary (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.
Canary (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.
Canaries (pl. ) of Canary
Canary (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.
Canary (n.) A canary bird.
Canary (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.
Canary (n.) A quick and lively dance.
Canary (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.
Canary bird () A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.
Canaster (n.) 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.
Can buoy () See under Buoy, n.
Cancan (n.) A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.
Canceled (imp. & p. p.) of Cancel
Cancelled () of Cancel
Canceling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cancel
Cancelling () of Cancel
Cancel (v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
Cancel (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
Cancel (v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
Cancel (v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
Cancel (v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
Cancel (v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
Cancel (v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
Cancel (v. i.) The part thus suppressed.
Cancelier (v. i.) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.
Cancelier (n.) Alt. of Canceleer
Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.
Cancellarean (a.) Cancellarean.
Cancellate (v. t.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.
Cancellate (v. t.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.
Cancellated (a.) Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.
Cancellated (a.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones.
Cancellation (n.) The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
Cancellation (n.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
Cancelli (v. t.) 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.
Cancelli (v. t.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.
Cancellous (a.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.
Cancer (n.) 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.
Cancer (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.
Cancer (n.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.
Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.
Cancerated (imp. & p. p.) of Cancerate