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Decampment :: Decampment (n.) Departure from a camp; a marching off.

Helve :: Helve (n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Scamperer :: Scamperer (n.) One who scampers.

Sycamore :: Sycamore (n.) The American plane tree, or buttonwood..

Buttonwood :: Buttonwood (n.) The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa..

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

Laurinol :: Laurinol (n.) Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family name (Lauraceae) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.

Scrambling :: Scrambling (a.) Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.

Swab :: Swab (n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc..

Camously :: Camously (adv.) Awry.

Whitewort :: Whitewort (n.) Wild camomile.

Occupy :: Occupy (v. t.) To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground..

Hostel :: Hostel (n.) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge..

Camaieu :: Camaieu (n.) A cameo.

Ordovician :: Ordovician (a.) Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian..

Kodak :: Kodak (n.) A kind of portable camera.

Bell-shaped :: Bell-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.

Feverfew :: Feverfew (n.) A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities..

Camera Obscura :: Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced..

Caryophyllin :: Caryophyllin (n.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor..

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