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A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. "Caddises, cambrics, lawns." Shak.

A kind of coarse serge.

A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.

A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.

To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15.

A kind of head covering; a caul. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of duck. See Old squaw.

Of or pertaining to caloric. Caloric engine, a kind of engine operated air.

A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers. Smoked the calumet, the Peace pipe, As a signal to the nations. Lowgfellow.

A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.

A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.

A kind of straitjacket.

can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation. -- camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling. -- Camp chair, a light chair that can be fo…

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot,

A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. Shak. Black canker. See under Black.

A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles.

A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind. Darwin.