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A vessel in which any thing is boiled.

A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.

A substance, C16H14O5, extracted from brazilwood as a yellow crystalline powder which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies on exposure to the air, being oxidized to bra*sil"e*in, C16H12O5, to which brazilwood owes its dyeing properties.

See Brazil wood.

o excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels. What doth he but turn broiler, . . . make new libels against the church Hammond.

A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.

A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

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 bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. Many of the campaniles od Italy are lofty and magnificent atructures. Swift.

ge, whether vocal or instrumental, pecuilarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.

Same as Cantle, v. t.

See Cantabile.

Same as Cantalever.

A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

Car miles collectively.

A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.

One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.

See Camomile.

Of or pertaining to Chile.