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To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.…

The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings. A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian.

A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea. Cowell.

To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.

Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.

See Hippocampus.

Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. Fairholt.

The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.

Any one of numerous species of tropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but climb on tree trunks like nuthatches, and feed upon insects. Their colors are often brilliant.

Same as Caimacam.

The hartbeest.

A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.

Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.

Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments. -- Med`ica*men"tal*ly, adv.

The acid amide of mucic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A catkin or ament; the flower cluster of the hazel, pine, willow, and the like.

Like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits. [Written also nucumentaceous.]

An alloy imitating gold or silver. [Written also ochimy, ochymy, etc.]

A divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator of the universe.