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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 pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes. Farrow.

The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [Obs.] O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.

Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.

A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. Watts.

The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation.

An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to carcinoma.

The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.

Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation.

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.

See Caramel.

See Carom.

native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

The act of telling fortunes with cards.

cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

A race course.

han the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.