n.; pl. Aids-de-camp. [ F. aide de camp (literally) camp assistant. ] (Mil.) An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; to bend back; &unr_; back + &unr_; to bend. ] Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word was formerly applied to that part of optics which treats of reflection; the same as what is now called catoptric. See Catoptrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The science of reflected sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus plant, field; akin to Gr. kh^pos garden. Cf. Campaign, Champ, n. ] 1. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. [ Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See champion. ] An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Camp bedstead, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation. --
camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling. --
Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet. --
Camp fever, typhus fever. --
Camp follower, a civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc. --
Camp meeting, a religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It usually last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages. --
Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back. --
Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. Farrow. --
To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp. --
To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Camped p. pr. & vb. n. Camping. ] To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had our great palace the capacity
To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out. [ 1913 Webster ]

They camped out at night, under the stars. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ See Camp, n., 6 ] To play the game called camp. [ Prov. Eng. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. See Campaign. ] An open level tract of country; especially “Campagna di Roma.” The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Its length is commonly stated to be about ninety miles, and its breadth from twenty-seven to forty miles. The ground is almost entirely volcanic, and vapors which arise from the district produce malaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. , fr. campagne field. ] (Zool.) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. campagne, It. campagna, fr. L. Campania the level country about Naples, fr. campus field. See Camp, and cf. Champaign, Champagne. ] 1. An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Political operations preceding an election, by candidates, their assistants, and supporters, for the purpose of convincing voters to vote for the candidate. It usually consists of one or more methods of contacting voters including advertising, distribution or mailing of printed leaflets or letters; speeches, interviews with news media, and door-to-door visits with potential voters. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. Hence: Any coordinated effort to contact potential supporters or customers and solicit their support or patronage; as, an advertising campaign. [ PJC ]

5. (Metal.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To serve in a campaign. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. one who is campaigning, especially a politician running for elective office, or one of his/her supporters. [ PJC ]

n. The campaign of a candidate to be elected.
Syn. -- candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. campana bell. Cf. Campanle. ] 1. (Eccl.) A church bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The pasque flower. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Doric Arch.) Same as Gutta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., a bellman. ] (Zool.) The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Campana. ] (Her.) Bells. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ See Campaig. ] Open country. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. campana bell + -form: cf. F. companiforme. ] Bell-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. campanile bell tower, steeple, fr. It. & LL. campana bell. ] (Arch.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of the campaniles of Italy are lofty and magnificent structures. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Campaniform. ] Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. campana bell + -logy. ] The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ LL. campanula a little bell; dim. of campana bell. ] (Bot.) A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of flowering plants, which in some classifications includes the Lobeliaciae.
Syn. -- family Campanulaceae, bellflower family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Campanulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of plants which includes the Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Stylidiaceae; Calyceraceae; and Compositae.
Syn. -- order Campanulales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. shaped like a bell or campana; campaniform.
Syn. -- campanulate, campanulated, campaniform, campaniliform. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. campanula a bell. ] (Zool.) A hydroid of the family Campanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Bell-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Alexander Campbell, of Virginia. ] (Eccl.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From the bay of Campeachy, in Mexico. ] Logwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp, especially who sleeps in a wilderness for recreation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who stays at a summer camp or day camp. [ PJC ]

3. A vehicle, such as a small truck, or a pickup truck with a hood over the back, equipped for convenience while camping out. [ PJC ]

happy camper a person who is pleased with the situation in which s/he finds him/herself. Often used ironically or in understatement, especially in the negative; as, the passengers left behind on the island were not a bunch of happy campers. [ PJC ]

{ } a. [ L. campester, fr. campus field. ] Relating to an open field; growing in a field, or open ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Camp, n., 6. ] (O. Eng. Law.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Camphor. ] Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to a mixture of this substance with three times its volume of alcohol and sometimes a little ether, used as an illuminant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An old spelling of Camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Camphor + -gen: -- formerly so called as derived from camphor: cf. F. camphogène. ] (Chem.) See Cymene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Camphor + -ol. ] (Chem.) See Borneol. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. [ R. ] Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. camfere, F. camphre (cf. It. canfora, Sp. camfora, alcanfor, LL. canfora, camphora, NGr. kafoyra`), fr. Ar. kāfūr, prob. fr. Skr. karpūra. ] 1. A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphora of Linnæus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. originally, a gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops aromatica formerly Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; now applied to its main constituent, a terpene alcohol obtainable as a white solid C10H18O, called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, Malayan camphor, camphor of Borneo, Sumatra camphor, bornyl alcohol, camphol, and borneol. The isomer from Dryobalanops is dextrorotatory; the levoratatory form is obtainable from other species of plants, and the racemic mixture may be obtained by reduction of camphor. It is used in perfumery, and for manufacture of its esters. See Borneol. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ The name camphor is also applied to a number of bodies of similar appearance and properties, as cedar camphor, obtained from the red or pencil cedar (Juniperus Virginiana), and peppermint camphor, or menthol, obtained from the oil of peppermint. [ 1913 Webster ]

Camphor oil (Chem.), name variously given to certain oil-like products, obtained especially from the camphor tree. --
Camphor tree, a large evergreen tree (Cinnamomum Camphora) with lax, smooth branches and shining triple-nerved lanceolate leaves, probably native in China, but now cultivated in most warm countries. Camphor is collected by a process of steaming the chips of the wood and subliming the product. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To impregnate or treat with camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. camphorate. ] (Chem.) A salt of camphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } Combined or impregnated with camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. camphorique. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Camphoric acid, a white crystallizable substance, C10H16O4, obtained from the oxidation of camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Other acids of camphor are campholic acid, C10H18O2, and camphoronic acid, C9H12O5, white crystallizable substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ rom Camphor. ] Pertaining to, or derived from camphor. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Lodging in a camp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ See Camp, n., 6 ] A game of football. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. L. campus field. ] (Bot.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bladder campion, a plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. See Behen. --
Rose campion, a garden plant (Lychnis coronaria) with handsome crimson flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]