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Crooked; awry. [Obs.] "This is clean kam." Shak.

The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.

ing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm. [Written also kameela.]

A low ridge. [Scot.] See Eschar.

A title given to the celestial gods of the first mythical dynasty of Japan and extended to the demigods of the second dynasty, and then to the long line of spiritual princes still represented by the mikado.

A curious South American bird (Anhima, or Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds,…

A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta- percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow. [Written also campylite.]

A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara. [Written also Khamseen.]

An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of Kamtschatka.

A negro or negress. Shak.

The Russian variety of bagatelle.

Same as Decameter.

A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal. [Western U.S.]

A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock. Hudibras.

The gemsbok.

A west African anthropoid ape (Troglodytes koolokamba, or T. Aubryi), allied to the chimpanzee and gorilla, and, in some respects, intermediate between them.

Lit., culture war; -- a name, originating with Virchow (1821 -- 1902), given to a struggle between the the Roman Catholic Church and the German government, chiefly over the latter's efforts to control educational and ecclesiastical appointments in the interest of the political policy of centralization. The struggle beg…

See Rocambole.

See Trumpeter, 3 (a).