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  • English Word Camaieu Definition Painting in shades of one color; monochrome.
  • English Word Camail Definition A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.
  • English Word Camail Definition A hood of other material than mail;
  • English Word Camail Definition a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.
  • English Word Camarasaurus Definition A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.
  • English Word Camarilla Definition The private audience chamber of a king.
  • English Word Camarilla Definition A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.
  • English Word Camass Definition A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians.
  • English Word Camber Definition An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).
  • English Word Camber Definition An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.
  • English Word Camber Definition To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.
  • English Word Camber Definition To curve upward.
  • English Word Cambered Definition of Camber
  • English Word Cambering Definition of Camber
  • English Word Camberkeeled Definition Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.
  • English Word Cambial Definition Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange.
  • English Word Cambist Definition A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.
  • English Word Cambistry Definition The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.
  • English Word Cambium Definition A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.
  • English Word Cambium Definition A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.
  • English Word Camblet Definition See Camlet.
  • English Word Camboge Definition See Gamboge.
  • English Word Camboose Definition See Caboose.
  • English Word Cambrasine Definition A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.
  • English Word Cambrel Definition See Gambrel, n., 2.
  • English Word Cambria Definition The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets.
  • English Word Cambrian Definition Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.
  • English Word Cambrian Definition Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.
  • English Word Cambrian Definition A native of Cambria or Wales.
  • English Word Cambrian Definition The Cambrian formation.