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To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Combined or impregnated with camphor. Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.

To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.

The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.

Hooded; cowled.

A salt of capric acid.

The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.

One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.

xpurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.

The act of castrating.

A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. Swift.

Relating to the chair or office of a teacher. [Obs.]

Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.

To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned. Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay.

The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.

One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle.

The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.

An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

Covered with wax.