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A hood of other material than mail;

a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.

The private audience chamber of a king.

A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.

A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians.

An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.

To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.

To curve upward.

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Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.

Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange.

A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.

A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.

A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.

See Camlet.

See Gamboge.