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A ridge or mound of earth. [Prow. Eng.] Wright. Cam wheel (Mach.), a wheel with one or more projections (cams) or depressions upon its periphery or upon its face; one which is set or shaped eccentrically, so that its revolutions impart a varied, reciprocating, or intermittent motion.

A cameo. [Obs.] Crabb.

A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.

Chamber; house; -- used in Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res, and Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos. See Legislature.

Comradeship and loyalty.

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.

The private audience chamber of a king.

A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. [Written also camas, cammas, and quamash.]

An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.

Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange. [R.]

A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.

f the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.

See Camlet.

See Gamboge.

See Caboose.

A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.

See Gambrel, n., 2. Wright.

The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets.