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Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson.

To call, or name. [Obs.] That other son was cleped Cambalo. Chaucer.

he clove tree (Eugenia, or Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. -- Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.

quarterdeck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys.

To mark or delineate with charcoal. Camden.

community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.

Wrinkled; puckered. Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain. Gay.

ne or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay.

A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

who dwells with another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.

An inventor or maker, as of words. Camden.

or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive. When we came to Rome. Acts xxviii. 16. Lately come from Italy. Acts vviii. 2.

ho is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; -- at Cambrige called a pensioner.

Rounded; arched. [Obs.] She came . . . into the compassed window. Shak.

ight into a focus; to concentrate the attention. (He) concentrated whole force at his own camp. Motley.

e of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

rent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South.

e objects; hence, a rival; an opponent. Menander . . . had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him. Holland.

umstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate. I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king. Shak. And O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse Cowley. The new conditions of life. Darwin…