Campaigner
Cam‐paign″er (?), n. One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Cam‐paign″er (?), n. One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
Cam‐pa″na (?), n. [LL. campana bell. Cf. Campanle.] 1. (Eccl.) A church bell.2. (Bot.) The pasque flower. Drayton.3. (Doric Arch.) Same as Gutta.
Cam‐paned″ (?), a.(Her.) Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.
‖Cam′pa‐ne″ro (?), n.(Zoöl.) The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird.
Cam‐panes″ (?), n. pl. [See Campana.] (Her.) Bells.
‖Cam‐pa″ni‐a (?), n. [See Campaig.] Open country. Sir W. Temple.
Cam‐pan″i‐form (?), a. [LL. campana bell + -form: cf. F. companiforme.] Bell-shaped.
‖Cam′pa‐ni″le (?), n. [It. campanile bell tower, steeple, fr. It. & LL. campana bell.] (Arch.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.Many of the campaniles of Ital...
Cam′pa‐nil″i‐form (?), a. [See Campaniform.] Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.
Cam′pa‐nol″o‐gist (?), n. One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.
Cam′pa‐nol″o‐gy (?), n. [LL. campana bell + -logy.] The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.
‖Cam‐pan″u‐la (kăm‐păn″ū̍‐lȧ), n. [LL. campanula a little bell; dim. of campana bell.] (Bot.) A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; — also ...
Cam‐pan′u‐la″ceous (kăm‐păn′ū̍‐lā″shŭs), a.(Bot.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Campanulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Can...
Cam‐pan′u‐la″ri‐an (?), n. [L. campanula a bell.] (Zoöl.) A hydroid of the family Campanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or...
Cam‐pan″u‐late (?), a.(Bot.) Bell-shaped.
Camp″bell‐ite (?), n. [From Alexander Campbell, of Virginia.] (Eccl.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term C...
Cam‐peach″y Wood′ (?). [From the bay of Campeachy, in Mexico.] Logwood.
Camp″er (?), n. One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.
{ Cam‐pes″tral (?), Cam‐pes″tri‐an (?), } a. [L. campester, fr. campus field.] Relating to an open field; growing in a field, or open ground.
Camp″fight′ (?), n. [Cf. Camp, n., 6.] (O. Eng. Law.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
Cam″phene (kăm″fēn or kăm‐fēn″), n.(Chem.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.
Cam‐phine″ (kăm‐fēn″ or kăm″fĭn), n. [From Camphor.] Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.☞ The name is also applied to a...
Cam″phire (kăm″fīr), n. An old spelling of Camphor.
Cam″pho‐gen (?), n. [Camphor + -gen: — formerly so called as derived from camphor: cf. F. camphogène.] (Chem.) See Cymene.
Cam″phol (?), n. [Camphor + -ol.] (Chem.) See Borneol.
Cam″phor (kăm″fẽr), n. [OE. camfere, F. camphre (cf. It. canfora, Sp. camfora, alcanfor, LL. canfora, camphora, NGr. καφουρά), fr. Ar. kāfūr, prob. fr. Skr. karpūra.] 1. A tough...
Cam″phor (?), v. t. To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. Tatler.