Webster's Dictionary 1828

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CAMPANULATE

CAMPANULATE, adjective In the form of a bell.

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CAMPEACHY-WOOD

CAMPEACHY-WOOD, from Campeachy in Mexico.

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CAMPESTRAL

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

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CAMPESTRIAN

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

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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 wh...

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CAMPHOR-OIL

CAMPHOR-OIL. [See Camphor-tree.]

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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 b...

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CAMPHORATE

CAMPHORATE, noun In chimistry, a compound of the acid of camphor, with different bases.CAMPHORATE, adjective Pertaining to camphor, or impregnated with it.

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CAMPHORATED

CAMPHORATED, adjective Impregnated with camphor.

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CAMPHORIC

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

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CAMPILLA

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

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CAMPING

CAMPING, participle present tense Encamping.CAMPING, noun A playing at football.

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CAMPION

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

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CAMUS

CAMUS,CAMIS, noun A thin dress.

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CAN

CAN, noun A cup or vessel for liquors, in modern times made of metal; as a can of ale.CAN, verb intransitivepreterit tense could, which is from another root. [See Could.]1. To b...

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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.

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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.

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CANADIAN

CANADIAN, adjective Pertaining to Canada, an extensive country on the north of the United States.CANADIAN, noun An inhabitant or native of Canada.

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CANAIL

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

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CANAKIN

CANAKIN, noun A little can or cup.

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CANAL

CANAL, noun1. 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 b...

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CANAL-COAL

CANAL-COAL. [See Cannel-coal.]

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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 p...

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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.

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CANARY

CANARY, noun1. Wine made in the canary isles.2. An old dance. Shakespeare has used the word as a verb in a kind of cant phrase.

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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 an...

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CANARY-GRASS

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