Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAM'ERA-LU'CI-DA, n.

1. An optical instrument, which by means of a stile, lenses, &c. gives the outlines of external objects on paper or canvas, so that an artist can sketch the subject. – Elmes.
2. A gem cut in relief; fine carving on precious stones and shells.

CAM'E-RA-OB-SCU'RA, n. [οr dark chamber;]

Ιn optics an apparatus representing an artificial eye, in which the images of external objects, received through a double convex glass, are exhibited distinctly, and in their native colors, on a white matter, in the machine, in the focus of the glass.

CAM'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. camero, from camera, a chamber, properly an arched roof.]

To vault; to ceil. [Little used.]

CAM'ER-A-TED, a. [L. cameratus, from camera.]

Arched; vaulted.

CAM'ER-A-TING, ppr.

Arching.

CAM'ER-ATION, n.

An arching or vaulting.

CAM'IS, n. [It. camice.]

A thin dress. [Not English.]

CAM-IS-ADE', n. [Fr. from chemise, a shirt; It camicia; Sp. camisa.]

An attack by surprise, at night, or at break of day, when the enemy is supposed to be in bed. This word is said to have taken its rise from an attack of this kind, in which the soldiers, as a badge to distinguish each other, bore a shirt over their arms. – Encyc.

CAM'IS-A-TED, a.

Dressed with a shirt outward. – Johnson.

CAM'LET, n. [from camel, sometimes written Camelot.]

A stuff originally made of camel's hair. It is now made, sometimes of wool, sometimes of silk, sometimes of hair, especially that of goats, with wool or silk. In some, the warp is silk and wool twisted together and the woof is hair. The pure Oriental camlet is made solely from the hair of a sort of goat, about Angora. Camlets are now made in Europe. – Encyc.

CAM'LET-ED, a.

Colored or veined. – Herbert.

CAM'MOC, n. [Sax. cammoc or cammec.]

A plant, petty whin or rest-harrow, Ononis.

CAM'OUS, or CA-MOYS', a. [Fr. camus; W. cam, crooked.]

Flat; depressed. [Applied only to the nose, and little used.]

CAM'OUS-ED, a.

Depressed; crooked. – B. Jonson.

CAM'OUS-LY, adv.

Awry. – Skelton.

CAMP, n. [L. campus; Fr. camp and champ; Arm. camp; It. Sp. and Port. campo; Sax. camp. The sense is, an open level field or plain. See Champion and Game.]

1. The ground on which an army pitch their tents, whether for a night or a longer time.
2. The order or arrangement of tents, or disposition of an army, for rest; as, to pitch a camp. Also, the troops encamped on the same field.
3. An army. – Hume.

CAMP, v.t. [or i.]

To rest or lodge, as an army, usually in tents; to pitch a camp; to fix tents; but seldom used. [See Encamp.]

CAM-PAG'NOL, n.

A species of rat with a short tail. – Kirby.

CAM-PAIGN', or CAM-PAIN', n. [campa'ne; Fr. campagne; It. campagna; Sp. compaña; Port. companha, from camp. This should be written campain, as Mitford writes it.]

1. An open field; a large open plain; an extensive tract of ground without considerable hills. [See Champaign.]
2. The time that an army keeps the field, either in action, marches, or in camp, without entering into winter quarters. A campaign is usually from spring to autumn or winter; but in some instances, armies make a winter campaign.

CAM'PAIGN, v.i.

To serve in a campaign. – Musgrave.

CAM-PAIGN'ER, n.

One who has served in an army several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

CAM-PA'NA, n. [L.]

The pasque-flower.

CAM-PAN'I-FORM, a. [L. campana, a bell, and forma, form.]

In the shape of a bell; applied to flowers. – Botany.

CAM'PA-NILE, n.

In architecture, a clock or bell tower. – Elmes.

CAM'PA-NOL-O-GY, n. [L. campana, and Gr. λογος.]

Art of ringing bells; properly, a treatise on the art.