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ptain of a vessel to the engineer, helmsman, etc. (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy. -- Call note, the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artifically applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. Latham. -- Call of the house (Legislative Bodies), a ca…

A cameo. [Obs.] Crabb.

A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.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

White. [Obs.] The box receives all black; but poured from thence, The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence. Dryden.

ead and sides of the neck. Capuchin nun, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in

The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.

Flesh of slain animals or men. A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay.

rried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious. Clarendon.

ginal cashmere. Cashmere shawl, a rich and costly shawl made of cashmere; -- other called camel's-hair shawl.

sion. Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. Hawthorne.

which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an…

Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries [came] to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey.

e; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons. It came to pass when he was in a certain city. Luke. v. 12. About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum. Macaulay. For certain, assuredly. -- Of a certain, certainly.

The operation or activity of such agent. By chance a priest came down that way. Luke x. 31.

g jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

as child. I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1. Cor. xii. 11.

The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.

A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.

y a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set. As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened. Macaulay.

ticular situation; to suppy relative incidents. The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him and circumstanced them, after his own manner. Addison.