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Call

CALL, verb transitive [Heb. To hold or restrain.] In a general sense, to drive; to strain or force out sound. Hence,

1. To name; to denominate or give a name. And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. Genesis 1:5.

2. To convoke; to summon; to direct or order to meet; to assemble by order or public notice; often with together; as, the king called his council together; the president called together the congress.

3. To request to meet or come.

He sent his servants to call them that were bidden. Math. 22.

4. To invite.

Because I have called and ye refused. Proverbs 1:28.

5. To invite or summon to come or be present; to invite, or collect.

CALL all your senses to you.

6. To give notice to come by authority; to command to come; as, call a servant.

7. To proclaim; to name, or publish the name.

Nor parish clerk, who calls the psalm so clear.

8. To appoint or designate, as for an office, duty or employment.

See, I have called by name Bezaleel. Exodus 31:2.

Paul called to be an apostle. Romans 1:1.

9. To invite; to warn; to exhort. Isaiah 22:12.

10. To invite or draw into union with Christ; to bring to know, believe and obey the gospel.

Revelation 19:9

11. To own and acknowledge. Hebrews 2:11.

12. To invoke or appeal to.

I call God for a record. 2 Corinthians 1:23.

13. To esteem or account. Isaiah 47:5. Matthew 3:15.

To call down, to invite, or to bring down.

To call back, to revoke, or retract; to recall; to summon or bring back.

To call for, to demand, require or claim, as a crime calls for punishment; or to cause to grow. Ezekiel 36:29. Also, to speak for; to ask; to request; as, to call for a dinner.

To call in, to collect, as to call in debts or money; or to draw from circulation, as to call in clipped coin; or to summon together; to invite to come together; as, to call in neighbors or friends.

To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind.

To call off, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the attention; to call off workmen from their employment.

To call up, to bring into view or recollection; as, to call u the image of a deceased friend; also, to bring into action, or discussion; as, to call up a bill before a legislative body.

To call over, to read a list, name by name; to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names.

To call out, to summon to fight; to challenge; also, to summon into service; as, to call out the militia.

To call to mind, to recollect; to revive in memory.

CALL, verb intransitive

1. To utter a loud sound, or to address by name; to utter the name; sometimes with to.

The angel of God called to Hagar. Genesis 21:3.

2. To stop, without intention of staying; to make a short stop; as, to call at the inn. This use Johnson supposes to have originated in the custom of denoting ones presence at the door by a call It is common, in this phrase, to use at, as to call at the inn; or on, as to call on a friend. This application seems to be equivalent to speak, D. Kallen. Let us speak at this place.

To call on, to make a short visit to; also, to solicit payment, or make a demand of a debt. In a theological sense, to pray to or worship; as, to call on the name of the Lord. Gen 4. To repeat solemnly.

To call out, to utter a loud voice; to bawl; a popular use of the phrase.

CALL, noun

1. A vocal address, of summons or invitation; as, he will not come at a call

2. Demand; requisition; public claim; as, listen to the calls of justice or humanity.

3. Divine vocation, or summons; as the call of Abraham.

4. Invitation; request of a public body or society; as, a clergyman has a call to settle in the ministry.

5. A summons from heaven; impulse.

St. Paul believed he had a call when he persecuted the Christians.

6. Authority; command.

7. A short visit; as, to make a call; to give one a call that is, a speaking to; D. Kallen. To give one a call is to stop a moment and speak or say a word; or to have a short conversation with.

8. Vocation; employment. In this sense calling is generally used.

9. A naming; a nomination.

10. Among hunters, a lesson blown on the horn, to comfort the hounds.

11. Among seamen, a whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to their duty.

12. The English name of the mineral called by the Germans tungsten or wolfram.

13. Among fowlers, the noise or cry of a fowl, or a pipe to call birds by imitating their voice.

14. In legislative bodies, the call of the house, is a calling over the names of the members, to discover who is absent or for other purpose; a calling of names with a view to obtain answers from the person named.

Callat

CALLAT, noun A trull, or a scold.

CALLET, verb intransitive To rail; to scold.

Called

CALLED, participle passive Invited; summoned; addressed; named; appointed; invoked; assembled by order; recited.

Caller

CALLER, noun One who calls.

Callet

CALLET,

CALLIGRAPHY, noun Fair or elegant writing, or penmanship.

Calling

CALLING, noun

1. A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtain an answer, as in legislative bodies.

2. Vocation; profession; trade; usual occupation, or employment.

Pope. Swift. 1 Corinthians 7:20

3. Class of persons engaged in any profession or employment.

4. Divine summons, vocation, or invitation.

Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure. 2 Peter 1:10.

Calliope

CALLIOPE, noun Calliopy. In Pagan mythology, the muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry.

Callipers

CALLIPERS. [See Caliber.]

Callix

CALLIX, noun

1. A cup

2. The membrane which covers the papillae in the pelvis of the human kidney. But it seem to be erroneously used for calyx, which see.

Callosity

CALLOSITY, adjective Hardness, or bony hardness; the hardness of the cicatrix of ulcers.

Callous

CALLOUS, adjective

1. Hard; hardened; indurated; as an ulcer or some part of the body.

2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling.

Callously

CALLOUSLY, adverb In a hardened or unfeeling manner.

Callousness

CALLOUSNESS, noun Hardness, induration, applied to the body; insensibility, applied to the mind or heart.

Callow

CALLOW, adjective Destitute of feathers, naked; unfledged; as a young bird.

Callus

CALLUS, noun Any cutaneous, corneous, or bony hardness, but generally the new growth of osseous matter between the extremities of fractured bones, serving to unite them; also a hardness in the skin; a hard, dense, insensible knob on the hands, feet, etc.

Calm

CALM, adjective

1. Still; quiet; being at rest; as the air. Hence not stormy or tempestuous; as a calm day.

2. Undisturbed; not agitated; as a calm sea.

3. Undisturbed by passion; not agitated or excited; quiet; tranquil; as the mind, temper, or attention.

CALM, noun Stillness; tranquillity; quiet; freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; applied to the elements, or the mind and passions.

CALM, verb transitive To still; to quiet; as the wind, or elements; to still, appease, allay or pacify, as the mind, or passions.

Calmer

CALMER, noun The person or thing that calms, or has the power to till, and make quiet; that which allays or pacifies.

Calming

CALMING, participle present tense Stilling; appeasing.

Calmly

CALMLY, adverb In a quiet manner; without disturbance, agitation, tumult, or violence; without passion; quietly.

Calmness

CALMNESS, noun

1. Quietness; stillness; tranquillity; applied to the elements.

2. Quietness; mildness; unruffled state; applied to the mind, passions or temper.

Calmy

CALMY, adjective Calm; quiet; peaceable.

Calogeri

CALOYERS, or CALOGERI noun Monks of the Greek church, of three orders; archari, or novices; ordinary professed, or microchemi; and the more perfect, called megalochemi. They are also divided into cenobites, who are employed in reciting their offices, from midnight to sunrise; anchorets, who retire and live in hermitages; and recluses, who shut themselves up in grottos and caverns, on the mountains, and live on alms furnished to them by the monasteries.

Calomel

CALOMEL, noun A preparation of mercury, much used in medicine. It is called the submuriate or protochloride of mercury, and is prepared in various ways, by sublimation or precipitation, and also in the dry way. The following are the directions given in the last London Pharmacopoeia. Take of muriated quicksilver one pound, and of purified quicksilver, nine ounces; rub them together till the globules disappear; then sublime, and repeat the sublimation twice more successively.

Caloric

CALORIC, noun The principle or matter of heat, or the simple element of heat. caloric may be defined, the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion are ascribed. caloric expands all bodies.

CALORIC, adjective Pertaining to the matter of heat.

Calorific

CALORIFIC, adjective That has the quality of producing heat; causing heat; heating.

Calorimeter

CALORIMETER, noun An apparatus for measuring relative quantities of heat, or the specific caloric of bodies; or an instrument for measuring the heat given out by a body in cooling, from the quantity of ice it melts, invented by Lavoisier and Laplace.

Calorimotor

CALORIMOTOR, noun A galvanic instrument, in which the calorific influence or effects are attended by scarcely any electrical power.

Calote

CALOTE, noun

1. A cap or coif, of hair, satin or other stuff, worn in popish countries, as an ecclesiastical ornament.

2. In architecture, a round cavity or depression, in form of a cup or cap, lathed and plastered, used to diminish the elevation of a chapel, cabinet, alcove, etc., which would otherwise be too high for other pieces of the apartment.

Calotte

CALOTTE,

CALOYERS, or CALOGERI, noun Monks of the Greek church, of three orders; archari, or novices; ordinary professed, or microchemi; and the more perfect, called megalochemi. They are also divided into cenobites, who are employed in reciting their offices, from midnight to sunrise; anchorets, who retire and live in hermitages; and recluses, who shut themselves up in grottos and caverns, on the mountains, and live on alms furnished to them by the monasteries.

Calp

CALP, noun A subspecies of carbonate of lime, of a bluish black, gray or grayish blue, but its streak is white, called also argillo-fer-ruginous limestone. It is intermediate between compact limestone and marl.

Caltrop

CALTROP, noun

1. A kind of thistle, the Latin tribulus, with a roundish prickly pericarp; on one side, gibbous, often armed with three or four daggers; on the other side, angular, converging with transverse cells. It grows in France, Italy and Spain, among corn, and is very troublesome, as the prickles run into the feet of cattle.

2. In military affairs, an instrument with four iron points, disposed in a triangular form, so that three of them being on the ground, the other points upward. These are scattered on the ground where an enemys cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses feet.

Calumet

CALUMET, noun Among the aboriginals of America, a pipe, used for smoking tobacco, whose bowl is usually of soft red marble, and the tube a long reed, ornamented with feathers. The calumet is used as a symbol or instrument of peace and war. To accept the calumet is to agree to the terms of peace, and to refuse it, is to reject them. The calumet of peace is used to seal or ratify contracts and alliances, to receive strangers kindly, and to travel with safety. The calumet of war, differently made, is used to proclaim war.

Calumniate

CALUMNIATE, verb transitive [See Calumny.] To accuse or charge one falsely, and knowingly, with some crime, offense, or something, disreputable; to slander.

CALUMNIATE, verb intransitive To charge falsely and knowingly with a crime or offense; to propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another.

Calumniated

CALUMNIATED, participle passive Slandered; falsely and maliciously accused of what is criminal, immoral, or disgraceful.

Calumniating

CALUMNIATING, participle present tense Slandering.

Calumniation

CALUMNIATION, noun False accusation of a crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.

Calumniator

CALUMNIATOR, noun One who slanders; one who falsely and knowingly accuses another of a crime or offense, or maliciously propagates false accusations or reports.

Calumniatory

CALUMNIATORY, adjective Slanderous.

Calumnious

CALUMNIOUS, adjective Slanderous; bearing or implying calumny; injurious to reputation.

Calumniously

CALUMNIOUSLY, noun Slanderously.

Calumniousness

CALUMNIOUSNESS, noun Slanderousness.

Calumny

CALUMNY, noun Slander; false accusation of a crime or offense, knowingly or maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; false representation of facts reproachful to another, made by design, and with knowledge of its falsehood; sometimes followed by on. Neglected calumny soon expires.

Calvary

CALVARY, noun

1. A place of skulls; particularly, the place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill west of Jerusalem. In catholic countries, a kind of chapel raised on a hillock near a city, as a place of devotion, in memory of the place where our Savior suffered.

2. In heraldry, a cross so called, set upon steps, resembling the cross on which our Savior was crucified.

Calve

CALVE, verb intransitive

1. To bring forth young, as a cow.

2. In a metaphorical sense, and sometimes by way of reproach, as when applied to the human race, to bring forth; to produce.

Calver

CALVER, verb transitive To cut in slices.

CALVER, verb intransitive To shrink by cutting, and not fall to pieces.

Calves-Snout

CALVES-SNOUT, noun A plant, snap-dragon, antirrhinum.

Calville

CALVILLE, noun A sort of apple.

Calvinish

CALVINISH, noun The theological tenets or doctrines of Calvin, who was born in Picardy in France, and in 1536, chosen professor of divinity, and minister of a church in Geneva. The distinguishing doctrines of this system are, original sin, particular election and reprobation, particular redemption, effectual grace in regeneration, or a change of heart by the spirit of God, justification by free grace, perseverance of the saints, and the trinity.

Calvinist

CALVINIST, noun A follower of Calvin; one who embraces the theological doctrines of Calvin.

Calvinistic

CALVINISTIC,

CALVINISTICAL, adjective Pertaining to Calvin, or to his opinions in theology.

Calvinistical

CALVINISTICAL, a. Pertaining to Calvin, or to his opinions in theology.

Calvish

CALVISH, adjective Like a calf.

Calx

CALX, noun Properly lime or chalk; but more appropriately, the substance of a metal or mineral which remains after being subjected to violent heat, burning, or calcination, solution by acids, or detonation by niter, and which is or may be reduced to a fine powder. Metallic calxes are now called oxyds. They are heavier than the metal from which they are produced, being combined with oxygen.

CALX nativa, native calx a kind of marly earth, of a dead whitish color, which, in water, bubbles or hisses, and without burning, will make a cement, like lime or gypsum.

CALX viva, quick-lime, is lime not slaked.

Calycinal

CALYCINAL,

CALYCINE, adjective Pertaining to a calyx; situated on a calyx.

Calycine

CALYCINE, a. Pertaining to a calyx; situated on a calyx.

Calycle

CALYCLE, noun In botany, a row of small leaflets, at the base of the calyx, on the outside. The calycle of the seed is the outer proper covering or crown of the seed, adhering to it, to facilitate its dispersion.

Calycled

CALYCULATE or CALYCLED adjective Having a calycle at the base on the outside

Calyculate

CALYCULATE or CALYCLED, adjective Having a calycle at the base on the outside; used of the calyx.

Calypter

CALYPTER, noun The calyx of mosses, according to Linne; but not properly a calyx. It is a kind of vail, or cowl, which cove or is suspended over the tops of the stamens, like an extinguisher.

The calyptra of mosses is an appendage of the capsule or female flower. It at first closely invests the capsule, and its summit is the stigma. As the capsule approaches maturity, the calyptra is detached below, and appended to the stigma like a hood.

Calyx

CALYX, noun plural calyxes. The outer covering of a flower, being the termination of the cortical epidermis or outer bark of the plant, which, in most plants, incloses and supports the bottom of the corol. In Linnes system, it comprehends the perianth, the involucrum, the ament, the spath, the glume, the calyptra, and the volva. But in general it signifies the perianth, and the leaves are generally green.

The opinion of Linne that the calyx is the continuation of the epidermis is now considered erroneous.

Calzoons

CALZOONS, noun Drawers.

Camaieu

CAMEO, CAMAIEU OR CAMAYEU, noun A peculiar sort of onyx; also, a stone on which are found various figures and representations of landscapes, a kind of lusus naturae, exhibiting pictures without painting. The word is said to be the oriental camehuia, a name given to the onyx, when they find, in preparing it, another color; as who should say, another color.

Camayeu

CAMEO, CAMAIEU, or CAMAYEU noun A peculiar sort of onyx; also, a stone on which are found various figures and representations of landscapes, a kind of lusus naturae, exhibiting pictures without painting. The word is said to be the oriental camehuia, a name given to the onyx, when they find, in preparing it, another color; as who should say, another color.

Camber

CAMBER, noun Among builders, camber or camber-beam is a piece of timber cut archwise, or with an obtuse angle in the middle, used in platforms, where long and strong beams are required. As a verb, this word signifies to bend, but I know not that it is used.

A cambered-deck, is one which is higher in the middle, or arched, but drooping or declining towards the stem and stern; also, when it is irregular.

Cambering

CAMBERING, participle present tense or adjective Bending; arched; as, a deck lies cambering

Cambist

CAMBIST, noun A banker; one who deals in notes, and bills of exchange.

Cambric

CAMBRIC, noun A species of fine white linen, made of flax, said to be named from Cambray in Flanders, where it was first manufactured.

Came

CAME, preterit tense of come, which see.

CAME, noun A slender rod of cast lead, of which glaziers make their turned lead.

Camel

CAMEL, noun

1. A large quadruped used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens, and for riders. As genus, the camel belongs to the order of Pecora. The characteristics are; it has no horns; it has six fore teeth in the under jaw; the canine teeth are wide set, three in the upper and two in the lower jaw; and there is a fissure in the upper lip. The dromedary of Arabian camel has one bunch on the back, four callous protuberances on the fore legs and two on the hind legs. The Bactrian camel has two bunches on the back. The Llama of South America is a smaller animal, with a smooth back, small head, fine black eyes, and very long neck. The Pacos or sheep of Chili his no bunch. Camels constitute the riches of an Arabian, without which he could neither subsist, carry on trade nor travel over sandy desarts. Their milk is his common food. By the camels power of sustaining abstinence rom drink, for many days, and of subsisting on a few coarse shrubs, he is peculiarly fitted for the parched and barren lands of Asia and Africa.

2. In Holland, camel [or Kameel, as Coxe writes it, ] is a machine for lifting ships, and bearing them over the Pampus, at the mouth of the river Y, or over other bars. It is also used in other places, and particularly at the dock in Petersburg, to bear vessels over a bar to Cronstadt.

Camel-Backed

CAMEL-BACKED, adjective Having a back like a camel.

Cameleon mineral. [See Chameleon.] A compound of pure potash and black oxyd of manganese, fused together, whose solution in water, at first green, passes spontaneously through the whole series of colored rays to the red; and by the addition of potash, it returns to its original green.

Camelopard

CAMELOPARD, noun [camelus and pardalis.] The giraff, a species constituting the genus Camelopardalis. This animal has two straight horns, without branches, six inches long, covered with hair, truncated at the end and tufted. On the forehead, is a tubercle, two inches high, resembling another horn. The fore legs are not much longer than the hind ones, but the shoulders are of such a vast length, as to render the fore part of the animal much higher than the hind part. The head is like that of a stag; the neck is slender and elegant, furnished with a short mane. The color of the whole animal is a dirty white marked with large broad rusty spots. This animal is found in the central and eastern parts of Africa. It is timid and not fleet.

Cameo

CAMEO, CAMAIEU, OR CAMAYEU, noun A peculiar sort of onyx; also, a stone on which are found various figures and representations of landscapes, a kind of lusus naturae, exhibiting pictures without painting. The word is said to be the oriental camehuia, a name given to the onyx, when they find, in preparing it, another color; as who should say, another color.

The word is applied by others to those precious stones, onyxes, carnelians and agates, on which lapidaries employ their art, to aid nature and perfect the figures.

The word is also applied to any gem on which figures may be engraved.

The word signifies also a painting in which there is only one color, and where the lights and shadows are of gold, wrought on a golden or azure ground. When the ground is yellow, the French call it cirage; when gray, grisaille. This work is chiefly used to represent bassorelievos.

Camera obscura, or dark chamber, in optics, an apparatus representing an artificial eye, in which the images of external objects, received through a double convex glass, are exhibited distinctly, and in their native colors, on a white matter, placed within the machine, in the focus of the glass.

Camerade

CAMERADE, noun One who lodges or resides in the same apartment; now comrade, which see.

Cameralistic

CAMERALISTIC, adjective Pertaining to finance and public revenue.

Cameralistics

CAMERALISTICS, noun The science of finance or public revenue, comprehending the means of raising and disposing of it.

Camerate

CAMERATE, verb transitive To vault; to ceil.

Camerated

CAMERATED, adjective Arched; vaulted.

Cameration

CAMERATION, noun An arching or vaulting.

Camis

CAMIS, noun A thin dress.

Camisade

CAMISADE, noun An attack by surprise, at night, or at break of day, when the enemy is supposed to be in bed. This word is said to have taken its rise from an attack of this kind, in which the soldiers, as a badge to distinguish each other by, bore a shirt over their arms.

Camisated

CAMISATED, adjective Dressed with a shirt outwards.

Camlet

CAMLET, noun A stuff originally made of camels hair. It is now made, sometimes of wool, sometimes of silk, sometimes of hair, especially that of goats, with wool or silk. In some, the warp is silk and wool twisted together, and the woof is hair. The pure oriental camlet is made solely from the hair of a sort of goat, about Angora. Camlets are now make in Europe.

Camleted

CAMLETED, adjective Colored or veined.

Cammoc

CAMMOC, noun A plant, petty whin or rest-harrow, Ononis.

Camomile

CAMOMILE, noun A genus of plants, Anthemis, of many species. It has a chaffy receptacle; the calyx is hemispheric and subequal, and the florets of the ray are more than five. The common sort is a trailing perennial plant, has a strong aromatic smell, and a bitter nauseous taste. It is accounted carminative, aperient, and emollient.

Camous

CAMOUS,

CAMOUSED, adjective Depressed; crooked.

Camoused

CAMOUSED, a. Depressed; crooked.

Camously

CAMOUSLY, adverb Awry.

Camoys

CAMOYS, noun Flat; depressed; applied only to the nose, and little used.

Camp

CAMP, noun

1. The ground on which an army pitch their tents, whether for a night or a longer time.

2. The order or arrangement of tents, or disposition of an army, for rest; as, to pitch a camp Also, the troops encamped on the same field.

3. An army.

CAMP, verb transitive or I. To rest or lodge, as an army, usually in tents; to pitch a camp; to fix tents; but seldom used. [See Encamp.]

Camp-Fight

CAMP-FIGHT, noun In law writers, a trial by duel, or the legal combat of two champions, for the decision of a controversy. [Camp in W. Is a game, and campiaw is to contend.]

Campaign

CAMPAIGN,

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

Campaigner

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

Campain

CAMPAIN, noun

1. An open field; a large open plain; an extensive tract of ground without considerable hills. [See Champaign.]

2. The time that an army keeps the filed, either in action, marches, or in camp, without entering into winter quarters. A campaign is usually from spring to autumn or winter; but in some instances, armies make a winter campaign.

CAMPAIGN, verb intransitive To serve in a campaign.

Campana

CAMPANA, noun The pasque-flower.

Campaniform

CAMPANIFORM, adjective In the shape of a bell; applied to flowers.

Campanula

CAMPANULA, noun The bell-flower.

Campanulate

CAMPANULATE, adjective In the form of a bell.

Campeachy-Wood

CAMPEACHY-WOOD, from Campeachy in Mexico.

Campestral

CAMPESTRAL,

CAMPESTRIAN, adjective Pertaining to an open field; growing in a field or open ground.

Campestrian

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

Camphor

CAMPHOR, noun Properly cafor. A solid concrete juice or exudation, from the laurus camphora, or Indian laurel-tree, a large tree growing wild in Borneo, Sumatra, etc. It is a whitish translucent substance, of granular or foliated fracture, and somewhat unctuous to the feel. It has a bitterish aromatic taste, and a very fragrant smell, and is a powerful diaphoretic.

CAMPHOR, verb transitive To impregnate or wash with camphor

Camphor-Oil

CAMPHOR-OIL. [See Camphor-tree.]

Camphor-Tree

CAMPHOR-TREE, noun The tree from which camphor is obtained. According to Miller, there are two sorts of trees that produce camphor; one, a native of Borneo, which produces the best species; the other, a native of Japan, which resembles the bay-tree, bearing black or purple berries. But the tree grows also in Sumatra. The stem is thick, the bark of a brownish color, and the ramification strong, close and extended. The, wood is soft, easily worked, and useful for domestic purposes. To obtain camphor, the tree is cut down, and divided into pieces, and the camphor taken out; it being found in small whitish flakes, situated perpendicularly, in irregular veins, in and near the center of the tree. It is then repeatedly soaked and washed in soapy water, to separate from it all extraneous matter. It is then passed through three sieves of different texture, to divide it into three sorts, head, belly and foot camphor. Camphor oil is camphor, before the operations of nature have reduced it to a concrete form; and concrete camphor may be reduced to oil, by the nitric acid.

Camphorate

CAMPHORATE, noun In chimistry, a compound of the acid of camphor, with different bases.

CAMPHORATE, adjective Pertaining to camphor, or impregnated with it.

Camphorated

CAMPHORATED, adjective Impregnated with camphor.

Camphoric

CAMPHORIC, adjective Pertaining to camphor, or partaking of its qualities.

Campilla

CAMPILLA, noun A plant of a new genus, used by dyers.

Camping

CAMPING, participle present tense Encamping.

CAMPING, noun A playing at football.

Campion

CAMPION, noun A plant, the popular name of the lychnis.

Camus

CAMUS,

CAMIS, noun A thin dress.

Can

CAN, noun A cup or vessel for liquors, in modern times made of metal; as a can of ale.

CAN, verb intransitive preterit tense could, which is from another root. [See Could.]

1. To be able; to have sufficient strength or physical power. One man can lift a weight which another can not. A horse can run a certain distance in a given time.

2. To have means, or instruments, which supply power or ability. A man can build a house, or fit out a ship, if he has the requisite property. A nation cannot prosecute a war, without money or credit. I will lend you a thousand dollars, if I can

3. To be possible.

Nicodemus said, How can these thing be? John 3:2.

4. To have adequate moral power. A man can indulge in pleasure, or he can refrain. He can restrain his appetites, if he will.

5. To have just or legal competent power, that is, right; to be free from any restraint of moral, civil or political obligation, or from any positive prohibition. We can use a highway for travel, for this is permitted by law. A man can or cannot hold an office. The Jews could not eat certain kinds of animals which were declared to be unclean. The House of Commons in England can impeach, but the House of Lords only can try impeachments. In general, we can do whatever neither the laws of God nor of man forbid.

How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God. Genesis 34:1.

I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord, my God, to do less or more. Numbers 22:1.

6. To have natural strength, or capacity; to be susceptible of; to be able or free to undergo any change, or produce any effect, by the laws and constitution of nature, or by divine appointment. Silver can be melted, but cannot be changed into gold.

CAN the rush grow without mire? Job 8:11.

CAN the fig tree bear olive berries? James 3:8.

CAN faith save him? James 2:14.

7. To have competent strength, ability, fortitude, patience, etc., in a passive sense. He cannot bear reproof. I cannot endure this impertinence.

This is a hard saying; who can hear it? John 6:44.

8. To have the requisite knowledge, experience or skill. Young men are not admitted members of college, till they can translate Latin and Greek. An astronomer can calculate an eclipse, though he can not make a coat.

9. To have strength of inclination or motives sufficient to overcome obstacles, impediments, inconvenience or other objection.

I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. Luke 9:1.

I cannot rise and give thee - yet because of him importunity, he will rise and give him. Luke 9:1.

10. To have sufficient capacity; as, a vessel can not hold or contain the whole quantity.

CAN, verb transitive To know.

Can-Buoy

CAN-BUOY, noun In seamanship, a buoy in form of a cone, made large, and sometimes painted, as a mark to designate shoals, etc.

Can-Hook

CAN-HOOK, noun An instrument to sling a cask by the ends of its staves, formed by reeving a piece of rope through two flat hooks, and splicing its ends together.

Canadian

CANADIAN, adjective Pertaining to Canada, an extensive country on the north of the United States.

CANADIAN, noun An inhabitant or native of Canada.

Canail

CANAIL, noun The coarser part of meal; hence, the lowest people; less; dregs; offscouring.

Canakin

CANAKIN, noun A little can or cup.

Canal

CANAL, noun

1. A passage for water; a water course; properly, a long trench or excavation in the earth for conducting water, and confining it to narrow limits; but the term may be applied to other water courses. It is chiefly applied to artificial cuts or passages for water, used for transportation; whereas channel is applicable to a natural water course.

The canal from the Hudson to Lake Erie is one of the noblest works of art.

2. In anatomy, a duct or passage in the body of an animal, through which any of the juices flow, or other substances pass; as the neck of the bladder, and the alimentary canal

3. A surgical instrument; a splint.

Canal-Coal

CANAL-COAL. [See Cannel-coal.]

Canaliculate

CANALICULATE,

CANALICULATED, adjective Channelled; furrowed. In botany, having a deep longitudinal groove above, and convex underneath; applied to the stem, leaf, or petiole of plants.

Canaliculated

CANALICULATED, a. Channelled; furrowed. In botany, having a deep longitudinal groove above, and convex underneath; applied to the stem, leaf, or petiole of plants.

Canary

CANARY, noun

1. Wine made in the canary isles.

2. An old dance. Shakespeare has used the word as a verb in a kind of cant phrase.

Canary-Bird

CANARY-BIRD, noun A singing bird from the Canary isles, a species of Fringilla. The bill is conical and straight; the body is yellowish white; the prime feathers of the wings and tail are greenish. These birds are now bred in other countries.

Canary-Grass

CANARY-GRASS, noun A plant, the Phalaris, whose seed are collected for canary-birds.

Cancel

CANCEL, verb transitive

1. To cross the lines of a writing, and deface them; to blot out or obliterate.

2. To annul, or destroy; as, to cancel an obligation or a debt.

Cancelated

CANCELATED, adjective Cross-barred; marked with cross lines.

Cancelation

CANCELATION, noun The act of defacing by cross lines; a canceling.

Canceled

CANCELED, participle passive Crossed; obliterated; annulled.

Canceling

CANCELING, participle present tense Crossing; obliterating; annulling.

Cancer

CANCER, noun

1. The crab or crab-fish. This genus of animals have generally eight legs, and two claws which serve as hands; two distant eyes, supported by a kind of peduncles, and they are elongated and movable. They have also two clawed palpi, and the tail is jointed. To this genus belong the lobster, shrimp, cray-fish, etc.

2. In astronomy, one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, represented by the form of a crab, and limiting the suns course northward in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice.

3. In medicine, a roundish, hard, unequal, scirrous tumor of the glands, which usually ulcerates, is very painful, and generally fatal.

Cancerate

CANCERATE, verb intransitive To grow into a cancer; to become cancerous.

Canceration

CANCERATION, noun A growing cancerous, or into a cancer.

Cancerous

CANCEROUS, adjective Like a cancer; having the qualities of a cancer.

Cancerousness

CANCEROUSNESS, noun The state of being cancerous.

Cancriform

CANCRIFORM, adjective

1. Cancerous.

2. Having the form of a cancer or crab.

Cancrine

CANCRINE, adjective Having the qualities of a crab.

Cancrite

CANCRITE, noun A fossil or petrified crab.

Candent

CANDENT, adjective Very hot; heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.

Candicant

CANDICANT, adjective Growing white.

Candid

CANDID, adjective

1. White.

2. Fair; open; frank; ingenuous; free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; applied to persons.

3. Fair; just; impartial; applied to things; as a candid view, or construction.

Candidate

CANDIDATE, noun

1. A man who seeks or aspires to an office; one who offers himself, or is proposed fro preferment, by election or appointment; usually followed by for; as a candidate for the office of sheriff.

2. One who is in contemplation for an office, or for preferment, by those who have power to elect or appoint, though he does not offer himself.

3. One who, by his services or actions, will or may justly obtain preferment or reward, or whose conduct tends to secure it; as a candidate for praise.

4. A man who is qualified, according to the rules of the church, to preach the gospel, and take the charge of a parish or religious society, and proposes to settle in the ministry.

5. One who is in a state of trial or probation for a reward, in another life; as a candidate for heaven or for eternity.

Candidly

CANDIDLY, adverb Openly; frankly; without trick or disguise; ingenuously.

Candidness

CANDIDNESS, noun Openness of mind; frankness; fairness; ingenuousness.

Candied

CANDIED, participle passive or adjective Preserved with sugar, or incrusted with it; covered with crystals of sugar or ice, or with matter resembling them; as candied raisins.

Candle

CANDLE, noun

1. A long, but small cylindrical body of tallow, wax or spermaceti, formed on a wick composed of linen or cotton threads, twisted loosely; used for a portable light of domestic use.

2. A light.

3. A light; a luminary. In scripture, the candle of the Lord is the divine favor and blessing, Job 14:1. 3.; or the conscience or understanding. Proverbs 20:27.

Excommunication by inch of candle is when the offender is allowed time to repent, while a candle burns, and is then excommunicated.

Sale by inch of candle is an auction in which persons are allowed to bid, only till a small piece of candle burns out.

Medicated candle in medicine, a bougie.

Rush-candles are used in some countries; they are made of the pith of certain rushes, peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease.

CANDLE-BERRY TREE, noun The Maraca cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle; a shrub common in North America, from the berries of which a kind of wax or oil is procured, of which candles are made. The oil is obtained by boiling the berries in water; the oil rising to the surface is skimmed of, and when cool, is of the consistence of wax, and of a dull green color. In popular language, this is called bayberry tallow.

Candle-Bomb

CANDLE-BOMB, noun A small glass bubble, filled with water, place in the wick of a candle, where it bursts with a report.

Candle-Coal

CANNEL-COAL or CANDLE-COAL noun A hard, opake, inflammable fossil coal of a black color, sufficiently solid to be cut and polished. On fire it decrepitates and breaks into angular fragments. It is sometimes used for inkholders and toys.

Candle-Holder

CANDLE-HOLDER, noun A person that holds a candle. Hence, one that remotely assists another, but is otherwise not of importance.

Candle-Light

CANDLE-LIGHT, noun The light of a candle; the necessary candles for use.

Candle-Stick

CANDLE-STICK, noun An instrument or utensil to hold a candle, made in different forms and of different materials; originally a stick or piece of wood.

Candle-Stuff

CANDLE-STUFF, noun A material of which candles are made, as tallow, wax, etc.

Candlemas

CANDLEMAS, noun The feast of the church celebrated on the second day of February, in honor of the purification of the Virgin Mary; so called from the great number of lights used on that occasion. This feast is supposed to have originated in the declaration of Simeon, that our Savior was to be a light to lighten the Gentiles. On this day, the Catholics consecrate all the candles and tapers which are to be used in their churches during the whole year. In Rome, the pope performs the ceremony himself, and distributes wax candles to the cardinals and others, who carry them in procession through the great hall of the popes palace. The ceremony was prohibited in England by an order of council in 1548. But candlemas is one of the four terms for paying and receiving rents and interest; and it gives name to a law term, beginning Jan. 15, and ending Feb. 3.

Candles-Ends

CANDLES-ENDS, noun Scraps; fragments.

Candoc

CANDOC, noun A plant or weed tha grows in rivers.

Candor

CANDOR, noun Openness of heart; frankness; ingenuousness of mind; a disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from tricks or disguise; sincerity.

Candy

CANDY, verb transitive

1. To conserve or dress with sugar; to boil in sugar.

2. To from into congelations or crystals.

3. To cover or incrust with congelations, or crystals of ice.

CANDY, verb intransitive To from into crystals, or become congealed; to take on the form of candied sugar.

Candy-Tufts

CANDY-TUFTS, noun

1. A plant, the Iberis.

2. A Cretan flower.

Candying

CANDYING, participle present tense Conserving with sugar.

CANDYING, noun The act of preserving simples in substance, by boiling them in sugar.

Cane

CANE, noun

1. In botany, this term is applied to several species of plants belonging to several species of plants belonging to different genera, such as Arundo, Calamus, Saccharum, etc. Among these is the bamboo of the East Indies, with a strong stem, which serves for pipes, poles, and walking sticks. The sugar cane a native of Asia, Africa and America, furnishes the juice from which are made, sugar, melasses and spirit. [See Sugar cane ]

2. A walking stick.

3. A long measure, in several countries of Europe; at Naples, the length is 7 feet 3 inches; in Thoulouse in France, 5 feet 8 inches; in Provence, etc., 6 feet 5 inches.

CANE, verb transitive To beat with a cane or walking stick.

Cane-Brake

CANE-BRAKE, noun A thicket of canes.

Cane-Hole

CANE-HOLE, noun A hole or trench for planting the cuttings of cane, on sugar plantations.

Cane-Trash

CANE-TRASH, noun Refuse of canes, or macerated rinds of cane, reserved for fuel to boil the cane-juice.

Canescent

CANESCENT, adjective Growing white or hoary.

Canicula

CANICULA,

CANICULAR, adjective Pertaining to the dog-star.

Canicular

CANICULAR, a. Pertaining to the dog-star.

Canicule

CANICULE, noun A star in the constellation of Canis Major, called also the dog-star, or Sirius; a star of the first magnitude, and the largest and brightest of all the fixed stars. From the rising of this heliacally, or at its emersion from the suns rays, the ancients reckoned their dog-days.

Canine

CANINE, adjective Pertaining to dogs; having the properties or qualities of a dog; as a canine appetite, insatiable hunger; canine madness, or hydrophobia.

CANINE teeth are two sharp pointed teeth in each jaw of an animal, one on each side, between the incisors and grinders; so named from their resemblance to a dogs teeth.

Caning

CANING, noun A beating with a stick or cane.

Canister

CANISTER, noun Properly, a small basket, as in Dryden; but more generally, a small box or case, for tea, coffee, etc.