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Cam*paign"er (?), n. One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

Cam*pa"na (?), n. [LL. campana bell. Cf. Campanle.] 1. (Eccl.) A church bell.

2. (Bot.) The pasque flower. Drayton.

3. (Doric Arch.) Same as Gutta.

Cam*paned" (?), a. (Her.) Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.

||Cam`pa*ne"ro (?), n. [Sp., a bellman.] (Zo÷l.) The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird.

Cam*panes" (?), n. pl. [See Campana.] (Her.) Bells. [R.]

||Cam*pa"ni*a (?), n. [See Campaig.] Open country. Sir W. Temple.

Cam*pan"i*form (?), a. [LL. campana bell + -form: cf. F. companiforme.] Bell-shaped.

||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.

Cam`pa*nil"i*form (?), a. [See Campaniform.] Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.

Cam`pa*nol"o*gist (?), n. One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.

Cam`pa*nol"o*gy (?), n. [LL. campana bell + -logy.] The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.

||Cam*pan"u*la (kăm*păn"&usl;*l&adot;), 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.

Cam*pan`u*la"ceous (kăm*păn`&usl;*lā"shŭs), a. (Bot.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (CampanulaceŠ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

Cam*pan`u*la"ri*an (?), n. [L. campanula a bell.] (Zo÷l.) A hydroid of the family CampanularidŠ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecŠ.

Cam*pan"u*late (?), a. (Bot.) Bell-shaped.

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.

Cam*peach"y Wood` (?). [From the bay of Campeachy, in Mexico.] Logwood.

Camp"er (?), n. One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.

{ 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.

Camp"fight` (?), n. [Cf. Camp, n., 6.] (O. Eng. Law.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.

Cam"phene (kăm"fēn or kăm*fēn"), n. (Chem.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

Cam*phine" (kăm*fēn" or kăm"f&ibreve;n), n. [From Camphor.] Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

&fist; 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.

Cam"phire (kăm"fīr), n. An old spelling of Camphor.

Cam"pho*gen (?), n. [Camphor + -gen: -- formerly so called as derived from camphor: cf. F. camphogŔne.] (Chem.) See Cymene.

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