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An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo).

By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton.

The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics.

To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly. Macaulay.

Departure from a camp; a marching off.

To drive from a camp. [Obs.] Holland.

A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.

To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.…

The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings. A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian.

See Hippocampus.

Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. Fairholt.

Reflecting sound. [R.] "Phonocamptic objects." Derham.

ty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially. [Colloq.] A workman is said to scamp his work when he does it in a superficial, dishonest manner. Wedgwood. Much of the scamping and dawdling complained of is that of men in establishments of good repute. T. Hughes.

A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.

quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. S. Sharpe.

One who scampers. Tyndell.

Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.

To break up the camp of; to dislodge from camp. [R.] If they could but now uncamp their enemies. Milton.