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One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.

- To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the bars in the sockets. -- To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or cable wound around it.

To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [Obs.] This book [must] be carded and purged. T. Shelton.

A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.

ge, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.

Spurge. [Obs.]

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent. Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. Josh. xxii. 5. Cromwell, I charge thee, fing away ambition. Shak.

To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase. To cheer ship, to salute a passing ship by cheers of sailors stationed in the rigging.

To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup. He cherups brisk ear-erecting steed. Cowper.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.

One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

To urge; to enjoin. [R.] Shak.

Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.