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he clove tree (Eugenia, or Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. -- Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.

community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.

ight into a focus; to concentrate the attention. (He) concentrated whole force at his own camp. Motley.

a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.

lettuce. -- Corn stone, red limestone. [Prov. Eng.] -- Corn violet (Bot.), a species of Campanula. -- Corn weevil. (Zoöl.) (a) A small weevil which causes great injury to grain. (b) In America, a weevil (Sphenophorus zeæ) which attacks the stalk of maize near the root, often doing great damage. See Grain weevil, und…

is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. Sir. W. Scott.

Constantinople. The cross of our faith is replanted, The pale, dying crescent is daunted. Campbell.

A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos- cuculi.

s of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God. Campbell.

t curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak. The village curfew, as it tolled profound. Campbell.

, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell.

A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis- apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.…

repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter. When the drum beat at dead of night. Campbell.

ntest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam.

To linger; to stay; to tarry. [Obs.] Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp. Nicols.

sed chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction. The details of the campaign in Italy. Motley.

of Jesus; -- also called the apostles. -- Disciples of Christ. See Christian, n., 3, and Campbellite.

To discourage; to deject. His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us. Shak.

sily managed from a distance. W. Irving. 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. T. Campbell. [He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato. Addison.