Definition of cam

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Cam (n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together..

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Encampment :: Encampment (n.) The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
Borneol :: Borneol (n.) A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol..
Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback..
Lauraceous :: Lauraceous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceae) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc..
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket..
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..
Outline :: Outline (v. t.) Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign..
"""campagna " :: Campagna (n.) An open level tract of country; especially Campagna di Roma. The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome..
Elecampane :: Elecampane (n.) A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.
Camp :: Camp (v. i.) To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.
Blow :: Blow (n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port..
Campaign :: Campaign (v. i.) To serve in a campaign.
Oscan :: Oscan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy..
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f
Excamb :: Excamb (v. t.) Alt. of Excambi.
Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5..
Intaglio :: Intaglio (n.) A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively..
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy..
Cammas :: Cammas (n.) See Camass.
Camail :: Camail (n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece..
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