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An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. Garrick. To relieve the tediumbams. Prof. Wilson.

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.

he senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [Colloq.] Addison. What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you J. H. Newman.

A swindler; one who deceives by trickery. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot.

A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.

Pertaining to an acid so called. Carbamic acid (Chem.), an amido acid, NH2.CO2H, not existing in the free state, but occurring as a salt of ammonium in commercial ammonium carbonate; -- called also amido formic acid.

The technical name for urea.

An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.

Libation. [Obs.] Holland.

s for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

thern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.

Alabama; -- a nickname.

s, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.

nquin. [Written also doolee and doolie.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. J. D. Hooker.

mmoniacal odor. It is a strong base, and is a derivative of ammonia. Called also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane.

Serving or tending to excite; excitative. [R.] Bamfield.