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To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

A vaulting or arching over. [R.]

presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power. [Written also camerlengo and camarlengo.]

A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charies II. Cameron and others refused to accept the "indulgence" offered the Presbyterian clergy, insisted on the Solemn league and Covenant, and in 1680 declared Charles II deposed for tyranny, breach of faith, etc. Cameron was killed at the b…

A light, loose dress or robe. [Also written camus.] [Obs.] All in a camis light of purple silk. Spenser.

An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. Give them a camisado in night season. Holinshed.

s XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.

A short dressing jacket for women.

A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [Sometimes written camelot and camblet.]

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

See Camass.

the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.

A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.

A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners. Farrow.

A secret organization formed at Naples, Italy, early in the 19th century, and used partly for political ends and partly for practicing extortion, violence, etc. -- Ca*mor"rist (#), n.

Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose. [Obs.]

Depressed; flattened. [Obs.] Though my nose be cammoused. B. Jonson

Awry. [Obs.] Skelton.

tion of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner. Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. W. Irving.