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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 phototheodolite, or a camera designed for use in photogrammetry. --Pho`to*gram*met"ric (#), Pho`to*gram*met"ric*al (#), a.

; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically prepared paper, from photographic negatives, by exposure to light.

A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.

A nephoscope registering by photography, commonly consisting of a pair of cameras used simultaneously.

An arrangement of two photographic cameras, the plates of which may be brought into exactly the same plane, used in surveying and map making. From the differences between two pictures taken at the same moment, measurements in all dimensions of the region may be obtained.

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

sagreeable position; to be in a condition of embarrassment, difficulty, or disorder. "How cam'st thou in this pickle" Shak. -- To put a rod in pickle, to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.

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

lways, used slightingly or in contempt. "If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him." Sir P. Sidney. Thy mother was a piece of virtue. Shak. His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. Coleridge. a piece of cake, a task easily accomplished. a piece of work, a disparaging term…

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.

Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. [R.] What student came but that you planed her path. Tennyson.

The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.

a pig a poke (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it. Camden.

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

One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [Cambridge Univ., Eng.]