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The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

ystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.

ered insinuations or private talk. "No longer was he earwigged by the Lord Cravens." Lord Campbell.

Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.

ral species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva. Elm beetle (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles (esp. Galeruca calmariensis), which feed on the leaves of the elm. -- Elm bore…

Full of daring; adventurous. [Archaic] T. Campbell.

our, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. Campbell.

A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town. Campbell (Mil. Dict. ).

A colorless, crystalline substance extracted from oil of cloves; -- called also clove camphor.

liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.

ns are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

ett (Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.

rmed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the microscope, whence it is sometimes called Campani's eyepiece. -- Positive eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces toward each other, and separated by…

a ferryboat. It can pass the ferry backward into light. Milton. To row me o'er the ferry. Campbell.

Engaged in the field; encamped. [Obs.] To help fielded friends. Shak.

A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. -- Fim"bri*al, a.

ng boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Folding chairFolding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.

; premeditation. His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp. Prescott.

o fall out; to happen. It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning. Knolles.

m the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper. That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell.