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Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined. Sir T. Herbert.

An open level tract of country; especially "Campagna di Roma." The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.

Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.

To know; to understand. [Obs.] I can rimes of Rodin Hood. Piers Plowman. I can no Latin, quod she. Piers Plowman. Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can. Shak.

Relating to cannibals or cannibalism. "Cannibal terror." Burke.

tal, a. -- To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.

Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular. "Capitulary acts." Warton.

The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.

A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.

aintain its proper relation to the opposing point. -- Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. Abney. -- Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pen…

A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portio…

Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake. Tomlinson.

That carouses; relating to a carouse.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.

Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.

Relating to, or causing, catalysis. "The catalytic power is ill understood." Ure. Catalytic force, that form of chemical energy formerly supposed to determine catalysis.

Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic.

A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison.