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an opponent. He took undue advantage of his credulity and mystified him exceedingly. Ld. Campbell.

A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica. [Writen also naphew.]

om the flowers of the orange. It has a strong odor, and is used in perfumery, etc. Neroli camphor (Chem.), a white crystalline waxy substance, tasteless and odorless, obtained from beroli oil; -- called also auradin.

bstance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.

An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin. [Written also nitrogelatine.]

n; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. Thy tears can not number the dead. Campbell. Numbering machine, a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc.

d, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground. Sir J. Herschel.

n a given day, has charge for that day of the quard, prisoners, and police of the post or camp. -- Officer of the deck, or Officer of the watch (Naut.), the officer temporarily in charge on the deck of a vessel, esp. a war vessel.

A saponaceous, camphorated liniment; a solution of soap in alcohol, with the addition of camphor and essential oils; soap liniment.

Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. "Aids-de-camp and orderly men." Sir W. Scott. Orderly book (Mil.), a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded. -- Orderly officer, the officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the…

Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy. -- n.

To flow out. Campbell.

Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.

A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.

To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell.

A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

Pampas deer (Zoöl.), a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus, or Blastocerus, campestris). -- Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.

y originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene.

A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.