<B>camail, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a piece of chain mail for protecting the neck and shoulders, especially one attached to the edge of the basinet or some other headpiece. </DL>
<A NAME="camailed">
<B>camailed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a camail. </DL>
<A NAME="camalig">
<B>camalig, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the Philippines: <DD><B> 1. </B>a warehouse for storing goods. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small house or cabin. </DL>
<A NAME="camanchaca">
<B>camanchaca, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a thick mist on the Peruvian and Chilean coasts; garua. </DL>
<A NAME="camaraderie">
<B>camaraderie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> friendliness and loyalty among comrades; comradeship. <BR> <I>Ex. the cheerful camaraderie of school days.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="camarilla">
<B>camarilla, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a group of private advisers; cabal. (SYN) clique, coterie. </DL>
<A NAME="camass">
<B>camass</B> or <B>camas, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a plant of the lily family growing in western North America. Its sweet, nourishing bulbs were eaten by Indians. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=death camass.</B> Also, <B>quamash.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="camayura">
<B>Camayura, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a primitive tribe of Indians of central Brazil. </DL>
<A NAME="camb">
<B>Camb.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Cambridge. </DL>
<A NAME="camber">
<B>camber, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to bend or curve upward in the middle; arch slightly. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an upward bend or curve in the middle; slight arch. <DD><B> 2. </B>a slightly arching piece of timber. <DD><B> 3. </B>the rise and fall of the curve of an airfoil of an aircraft. <DD><B> 4. </B>a slight inward tilt toward the bottom of the front wheels of an automobile. <BR> <I>Ex. As design and materials have improved the camber angle has been decreased until current cars have very little camber (Purvis and Toboldt).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="camberwellbeauty">
<B>Camberwell beauty,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of butterfly; mourning cloak. </DL>
<A NAME="cambial">
<B>cambial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> formed of or having to do with cambium. <BR> <I>Ex. In the course of the growing season each cell of the cambial sheath gives rise to a radial row of wood cells (E. W. J. Phillips).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cambism">
<B>cambism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the theory and practice of commercial exchange. </DL>
<A NAME="cambist">
<B>cambist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a person who deals in bills of exchange. <DD><B> b. </B>a person who is skilled in the operations of exchanges. <DD><B> 2. </B>a manual giving the equivalent moneys, weights, and measures of various countries. </DL>
<A NAME="cambistry">
<B>cambistry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the science or practice of the cambist. </DL>
<A NAME="cambium">
<B>cambium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a layer of soft growing tissue between the bark and the wood of trees and shrubs. New bark and new wood grow from it. It is the renewal of this growth year after year that produces annual rings. </DL>
<A NAME="cambodian">
<B>Cambodian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Cambodia (Kampuchea) or its people. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a native or inhabitant of Cambodia. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Khmer </B>(def. 2). </DL>
<B>Cambria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an old name of Wales. </DL>
<A NAME="cambrian">
<B>Cambrian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the earliest geological period of the Paleozoic era, before the Ordovician. During this period there were large numbers of primitive, invertebrate water animals, such as the trilobites. <DD><B> 2. </B>the rocks formed during this period. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=Welshman.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with the Cambrian or its rocks. <BR> <I>Ex. The Cambrian rocks derive their name from Cambria, the name for Wales, where, a century ago, this division of Paleozoic succession was defined (Raymond Cecil Moore).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Welsh.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cambric">
<B>cambric, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fine, thin linen or cotton cloth, similar to nainsook, except for its finish, which is not shiny. <BR> <I>Ex. delicate handkerchiefs of white cambric.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cambrictea">
<B>cambric tea,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a drink made of hot water, milk, and sugar, sometimes flavored with a little tea. </DL>
<A NAME="camcorder">
<B>camcorder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a videocassette recorder combined with a color camera. </DL>
<A NAME="camcording">
<B>camcording, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of using a camcorder. <BR> <I>Ex. Camcording can get expensive, but there is a growing "garage video" movement whose members buy much of their equipment at discount stores (Phillip Elmer-DeWitt).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="came">
<B>came</B> (1), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> past tense of <B>come.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. He came to school too early this morning.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="came">
<B>came</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the small, grooved bars of lead used for framing the glass in latticework or stained-glass windows. </DL>
<A NAME="cameist">
<B>cameist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a gem engraver. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who cuts or carves cameos. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who is a collector or connoisseur of cameos. </DL>
<A NAME="camel">
<B>camel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large, four-footed, cudchewing mammal with one or two humps on its back, a long neck, and cushioned feet. It is used as a beast of burden in the deserts of northern Africa and central Asia because it can go for a long time without drinking water. The Arabian camel, or dromedary, has one hump; the Bactrian camel of Asia has two humps. <DD><B> 2. </B>a watertight tank or drum used, usually in pairs, to raise a ship, barge, or the like, especially a ship that is sunk or aground. adj. <B>camellike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="camelback">
<B>camelback, </B>noun, adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the back of a camel. <DD><B> 2. </B>a compound of reclaimed rubber with a small amount of crude rubber, used especially for retreading or recapping tires. <DD><B> 3. </B>a railroad locomotive on which the cab is placed above the boiler. <DD><B> 4. </B>(in glassmaking) a rounded conveyor on which plates of glass are moved along after annealing. <DD><I>adj., adv. </I> on the back of a camel. <BR> <I>Ex. a camelback rider (adj.); to ride camelback (adv.).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="camelbird">
<B>camel bird,</B> <B>=ostrich.</B></DL>
<A NAME="camelcricket">
<B>camel cricket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a brownish, wingless, longhorned grasshopper found in caves and in the moist hollows of trees; cave cricket. </DL>
<A NAME="cameleer">
<B>cameleer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a camel driver. <DD><B> 2. </B>a soldier mounted or riding on a camel. </DL>
<A NAME="camelgun">
<B>camel gun,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gun, such as a machine gun, made light and short so it can be carried by camel. </DL>
<B>camellia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a shrub or tree with glossy leaves and waxy, white, red, pink, or mottled flowers shaped like roses. The camellia is an evergreen and belongs to the tea family. <DD><B> 2. </B>the flower. </DL>
<A NAME="camelliared">
<B>camellia red,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bright red, the color of red camellias. </DL>
<A NAME="camelopard">
<B>camelopard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the giraffe. The giraffe was given this name because it is formed somewhat like a camel, and is spotted like a leopard. </DL>
<A NAME="camelopard">
<B>Camelopard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a northern constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe. </DL>
<B>Camelot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a legendary place in Britain where King Arthur had his palace and court. <BR> <I>Ex. Turned to towered Camelot (Tennyson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a time or place of enchantment and glamour. <BR> <I>Ex. those who joined President Kennedy's administration immediately after his inauguration, those who came to Camelot (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="camelry">
<B>camelry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> soldiers mounted on camels. </DL>
<A NAME="camelshair">
<B>camel's hair,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the hair of a camel, used especially in making cloth and paintbrushes. <DD><B> 2. </B>a cloth made of this hair or something like it. <DD><B> 3. </B>the long hairs from the tail of a squirrel, used to make artists' paintbrushes. </DL>
<A NAME="camelshair">
<B>camel's-hair, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>made of camel's hair, mohair, or some similar fabric. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of artists' paintbrushes) made with camel's hair or the tail hairs of the squirrel. </DL>
<A NAME="camelshairbrush">
<B>camel's-hair brush,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an artist's paintbrush, made of the long hairs from the tail of a squirrel. </DL>
<A NAME="camelsnose">
<B>camel's nose,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) A small part of something large, especially something difficult or unpleasant to deal with. <BR> <I>Ex. Even this amount ... represents merely the camel's nose of the modernization program planned (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="camelsthorntree">
<B>camel's-thorn tree,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, slow-growing tree with very hard wood, common in southern Africa north of the Orange River. </DL>
<B>camel walk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a dance resembling the walk of a camel, in vogue in the 1920's. </DL>
<A NAME="camembert">
<B>Camembert, </B>noun, or <B>Camembert cheese,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rich, soft, ripened cheese. <BR> <I>Ex. Some 200 commercial varieties of cheese are made in France, the most important, in order, being Camembert, Gruyere, Port Salut, and Roquefort (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="camenae">
<B>Camenae, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Roman Mythology.) prophetic nymphs of the springs and fountains, in later times identified with the nine Muses. </DL>
