Campanile
(||Cam`pa*ni"le) n. [It. campanile bell tower, steeple, fr. It. & LL. campana bell.] (Arch.)
A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.
Many of the campaniles of Italy are lofty and magnificent structures.
Swift.
Campaniliform
(Cam`pa*nil"i*form) a. [See Campaniform.] Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.
Campanologist
(Cam`pa*nol"o*gist) n. One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.
Campanology
(Cam`pa*nol"o*gy) n. [LL. campana bell + -logy.] The art of ringing bells, or a treatise
on the art.
Campanula
(||Cam*pan"u*la) 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.
Campanulaceous
(Cam*pan`u*la"ceous) 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.
Campanularian
(Cam*pan`u*la"ri*an) n. [L. campanula a bell.] (Zoöl.) A hydroid of the family Campanularidæ,
characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ.
Campanulate
(Cam*pan"u*late) a. (Bot.) Bell-shaped.
Campbellite
(Camp"bell*ite) 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.
Campeachy Wood
(Cam*peach"y Wood`) [From the bay of Campeachy, in Mexico.] Logwood.
Camper
(Camp"er) n. One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.
Campestral
(Cam*pes"tral Cam*pes"tri*an) a. [L. campester, fr. campus field.] Relating to an open
field; growing in a field, or open ground.
Campfight
(Camp"fight`) n. [Cf. Camp, n., 6.] (O. Eng. Law.) A duel; the decision of a case by a
duel.
Camphene
(Cam"phene) (kam"fen or kam*fen"), n. (Chem.) One of a series of substances C10H16,
resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.
Camphine
(Cam*phine") (kam*fen" or kam"fin), n. [From Camphor.] Rectified oil of turpentine, used
for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.
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.
Camphire
(Cam"phire) n. An old spelling of Camphor.
Camphogen
(Cam"pho*gen) n. [Camphor + -gen: — formerly so called as derived from camphor: cf. F.
camphogène.] (Chem.) See Cymene.
Camphol
(Cam"phol) n. [Camphor + -ol.] (Chem.) See Borneol.
Camphor
(Cam"phor) n. [OE. camfere, F. camphre (cf. It. canfora, Sp. camfora, alcanfor, LL. canfora,
camphora, NGr. kafoyra`), fr. Ar. kafur, prob. fr. Skr. karpura.]
