Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C

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Camper (n.) One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp, especially who sleeps in a wilderness for recreation.

Campestral (a.) Alt. of Campestrian.

Campestrian (a.) Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.

Campestral (a.) Of fields or open country; "living in campestral seclusion".

Camp follower (n.) [ C ] （支援某政黨或組織但並非其成員的）追隨者 A person who is interested in and supports a particular political party or other organization but is not a member of it.

Camp follower (ph.) 隨軍流動以謀生的平民（尤指營妓）；應聲蟲 A civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.

Camptight (n.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.

Camphene (n.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

Camphine (n.) Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

Camphire (n.) An old spelling of Camphor.

Camphogen (n.) See Cymene.

Camphol (n.) See Borneol.

Camphor (n.) A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.

Camphor (n.) A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.

Camphor (v. t.) To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.

Camphoraceous (a.) Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.

Camphorate (v. t.) To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Camphorate (n.) A salt of camphoric acid.

Camphorate () Alt. of Camporated.

Camporated () Combined or impregnated with camphor.

Camphoric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor.

Camphretic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from camphor.

Camping (n.) Lodging in a camp.

Camping (n.) A game of football.

Campion (n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.

Campus (n.) 校園，校區 [C]；大學，學院 [C] The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

Campus (n.) A college or university.

Campus (n.) A division of a university with its own buildings and a separate faculty, especially one separated geographically from other divisiona, but sharing top administration with other units of the university; as, the Newark campus of Rutgers.

Campus (n.) Higher education considered as a whole; as, the financial effects of research cutbacks on the campus.

Campus (n.) A business site with pleasant landscaping; as, the Squibb research campus at Princeton.

Campus (n.) A field on which the buildings of a university are situated.

Campus (n.) [ C or U ] (B2) （大學）校園，校區 The buildings of a college or university and the land that surrounds them.

// There's accommodation for about five hundred students on campus.

Campylospermous (a.) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.

Campylotropous (a.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

Camus (n.) See Camis.

Camwood (n.) See Barwood.

Can () an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]

Can (n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.

Can (n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.

Canned (imp. & p. p.) of Can.

Canning (p. pr. &vb. n.) of Can.

Can (v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans

Could (imp.) of Can.

Can (v. t. & i.) To know; to understand.

Can (v. t. & i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence.

Can (v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.

Canaanite (n.) 迦南人；迦南語 A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.

Canaanite (n.) A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

Canaanite (n.) A zealot. "Simon the Canaanite." -- Matt. x. 4.

Note: This was the "Simon called Zelotes" (-- Luke vi. 15), i.e., Simon the zealot. -- Kitto.

Canaanite (n.) A member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites.

Canaanite (n.) The extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest.

Canaanite () A name given to the apostle Simon (Matt. 10:4; Mark 3:18). The word here does not, however, mean a descendant of Canaan, but is a translation, or rather almost a transliteration, of the Syriac word Kanenyeh (R.V. rendered "Cananaen"), which designates the Jewish sect of the Zealots. Hence he is called elsewhere (Luke 6:15) "Simon Zelotes;" i.e., Simon of the sect of the Zealots. (See SIMON.)

Canaanitish (a.) Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.

Cañada (n.) (US, dialect) A small canyon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.

Canada (n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.

Canadian (a.) Of or pertaining to Canada.

Canadian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada.

Canaille (n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

Canaille (n.) Shorts or inferior flour.

Canakin (n.) A little can or cup.

Canal (n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

Canal (n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

Canal coal () See Cannel coal.

Canaliculate (a.) Alt. of Canaliculated

Canaliculated (a.) Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

Canaliculi (n. pl. ) of Canaliculus.

Canaliculus (n.) A minute canal.

Canalization (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.

Canard (n.) 謬傳（尤指惡意編選的） An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

Canard (n.) A deliberately misleading fabrication.

Canarese (a.) Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

Canary (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.

Canary (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.

Canary grass, A grass of the genus Phalaris ({Phalaris Canariensis), producing the seed used as food for canary birds.

Canary stone (Min.), A yellow species of carnelian, named from its resemblance in color to the plumage of the canary bird.

Canary wood, The beautiful wood of the trees Persea Indica and Persea Canariensis, natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands.

Canary vine. See Canary bird flower, under Canary bird.

Canaries (n. pl. ) of Canary.

Canary (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. "A cup of canary." -- Shak.

Canary (n.) A canary bird.

Canary (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.

Canary (n.) A quick and lively dance. [Obs.]

Make you dance canary With sprightly fire and motion. -- Shak.

Canary (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. [Obs.]

But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet. -- Shak.

Canary (a.) Having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow [syn: canary, canary-yellow].

Canary (n.) Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary].

Canary (n.) A female singer.

Canary (n.) A moderate yellow with a greenish tinge [syn: canary yellow, canary].

Canary (n.) Any of several small Old World finches [syn: canary, canary bird].

Canary bird (n.) (Zool.) A small singing bird of the Finch family ({Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.

Canary bird flower (Bot.), A climbing plant ({Trop[ae]olum peregrinum) with canary-colored flowers of peculiar form; -- called also canary vine.

Canary bird (n.) Any of several small Old World finches [syn: canary, canary bird].

Canaster (n.) A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.

Can buoy () See under Buoy, n.

Cancan (n.) A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

Canceled (imp. & p. p.) of Cancel.

Cancelled () of Cancel.

Canceling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cancel.

Cancelling () of Cancel.

Cancel (v. i.) (v. t.) 刪去，劃掉；勾銷，蓋銷（郵票等）；取消，廢除；中止；抵消，對消[（+out）] (v. i.) 【數】相約，相消；互相抵消；取消；中止 To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.]

A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. -- Evelyn.

Cancel (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." -- Milton.

Cancel (v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. -- Blackstone.

Cancel (v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

The indentures were canceled. -- Thackeray.

He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. -- Sir W. Scott.

Cancel (v. i.) (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

{Canceled figures} (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.

Syn: To blot out; obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do away; set aside. See {Abolish}.

Cancel (n.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [Obs.]

A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. -- Jer. Taylor.

Cancel (n.) (Print.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

Cancel (n.) (Print.) The part thus suppressed.

Cancel (n.) A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: {natural}, {cancel}].

Cancel (v.) Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill" [syn: {cancel}, {call off}, {scratch}, {scrub}].

Cancel (v.) Make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength" [syn: {cancel}, {offset}, {set off}].

Cancel (v.) Declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" [syn: {cancel}, {strike down}]

Cancel (v.) Remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" [syn: {delete}, {cancel}].

Cancel (v.) Make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets" [syn: {cancel}, {invalidate}].

Cancelier (v. i.) (Falconry) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] -- Nares.

He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. -- Massinger. Cancelier

Cancelier (n.) Alt. of Canceleer.

Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. [Obs.]

The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach. -- Drayton.

Cancellarean (a.) Cancellarean. [R.]

Cancellate (a.) (Bot.) 【解】多孔的；（骨骼）有海綿似的結構的；【植】網目狀組織的；（葉子）網狀脈的 Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.

Cancellate (a.) (Zool.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.

Cancellate (a.) Having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows [syn: {cancellate}, {cancellated}, {clathrate}].

Cancellate (a.) Having an open or latticed or porous structure [syn: {cancellate}, {cancellated}, {cancellous}].

Cancellated (a.) Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.

Cancellated (a.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones.

Cancellation (n.) 取消；【數】約；相消 The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

Cancellation (n.) (Math.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.

Cancellation (n.) The act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement.

Cancellation (n.) The speech act of revoking or annulling or making void.

Cancellation (n.) [ C or U ] (C1) 取消；撤銷；使作廢 The act of deciding that an organized event will not happen or of stopping an order for something.

// Many trains are subject to cancellation because of the flooding.

// The theatre tickets were sold out, so we waited to see if there were any cancellations (= unwanted returned tickets).

Cancelli (n. pl.) An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.

Cancelli (n. pl.) (Anat.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.

Cancellous (a.) (Anat.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

Cancellous (a.) Having an open or latticed or porous structure [syn: cancellate, cancellated, cancellous].

Cancer (n.) (Zool.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

Cancer (n.) (Astron.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.

Cancer (n.) (Astron.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.

Cancer (n.) (Med.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.

Note: Four kinds of cancers are recognized: (1) Epithelial cancer, or Epithelioma, in which there is no trabecular framework. See Epithelioma. (2) Scirrhous cancer, or Hard cancer, in which the framework predominates, and the tumor is of hard consistence and slow growth. (3) Encephaloid cancer, Medullary cancer, or Soft cancer, in which the cellular element predominates, and the tumor is soft, grows rapidy, and often ulcerates. (4) Colloid cancer, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three varieties are also called carcinoma.

Cancer cells, Cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping.

Cancer root (Bot.), The name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc.

Tropic of Cancer. See Tropic.

Cancer (n.) Any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream [syn: cancer, malignant neoplastic disease].

Cancer (n.) (Astrology) A person who is born while the sun is in Cancer [syn: Cancer, Crab]

Cancer (n.) A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini.

Cancer (n.) The fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22 [syn: Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab].

Cancer (n.) Type genus of the family Cancridae [syn: Cancer, genus Cancer].

Cancer (n.) (B1) [ C or U ] 癌，癌症 A serious disease that is caused when cells in the body grow in a way that is uncontrolled and not normal, killing normal cells and often causing death.

// He died of liver cancer.

// Cancer of the cervix/ stomach.

// Breast/ bowel/ lung cancer.

// Cancer cells.

// A cancer patient.

// It was a secondary cancer.