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A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

Having the shape of a widemouthed bell; campanulate.

th American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidæ, of several species; the campanero.

A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell- shaped flowers.

on European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

Fig.: A girl; a maiden. And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon…

An encampment for the night without tents or covering.

A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault. A vigorous blow might win [Hanno's camp]. T. Arnold.

A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.

A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor. [Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]

A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called al…

dary. He hath compassed the waters with bounds. Job xxvi. 10. On earth's remotest bounds. Campbell. And mete the bounds of hate and love. Tennyson. To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.

n; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. And welcome war to brace her drums. Campbell.

ch as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape of coleseed (B. napus), etc.

pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein. Campbell.

An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.

To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.

A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; -- a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant]

A glass used in subliming camphor. [Spelled also bombolo and bumbolo.]

ile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol. -- Burning glass, a conxex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus. -- Burning house (Metal.), the furnace i…