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prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious. Bacon. Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war will drain us of more men and money. Addison.

ssoms, which appear in early spring, or about Easter, whence the common name. Called also campana.

The perfume made from this plant. Patchouly camphor (Chem.), a substance homologous with and resembling borneol, found in patchouly oil.

A lozenge of sugar flavored with peppermint. Peppermint camphor. (Chem.) Same as Menthol. -- Peppermint tree (Bot.), a name given to several Australian species of gum tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina, E. piperita, E. odorata, etc.) which have hard and durable wood, and yield an essential oil.

Superfluity of words. [R.] G. Campbell.

A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime. [Written also peucyl.]

geraniumlike odor, regarded as a complex derivative of acetone, and obtained from certain camphor compounds.

A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

See Camp, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Pie crust, the paste of a pie.

f money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy. Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. Arbuthnot.

Designating the acid proper (C5H10(CO2/H)2) which is obtained from camphoric acid.

x firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

Wearing a plaid. Campbell.

ody of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

eding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.

Prairie chicken, above. -- Prairie hare (Zoöl.), a large long-eared Western hare (Lepus campestris). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack. -- Prairie hawk, Prairie falcon (Zoöl.), a falcon of Western North America (Falco Mexicanus). The upper parts are brown. The tail has transverse bands of white; the under parts, longit…

te from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol. The light vapor of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold. W. Irving.

lar command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

g ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.

orts of 1,000 men each. -- Pretorian gate (Rom. Antiq.), that one of the four gates in a camp which lay next the enemy. Brande & C.