Definition of cam

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Cam (n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.

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Thibet Cloth :: Thibet cloth () A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.
Picamar :: Picamar (n.) An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
Hydrotheca :: Hydrotheca (n.) One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian..
Senate :: Senate (n.) The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.
Bromate :: Bromate (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor..
Sea Horse :: Sea horse () A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus..
Camonflet :: Camonflet (n.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners..
Aid :: Aid (v. t.) An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid..
Campagnol :: Campagnol (n.) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds..
Atacamite :: Atacamite (n.) An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals..
Became :: Became (imp.) of Becom.
Camisado :: Camisado (n.) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack..
Decampment :: Decampment (n.) Departure from a camp; a marching off.
Batiste :: Batiste (n.) Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton..
Camail :: Camail (n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece..
Vehmic :: Vehmic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the 12th century to the middle of the 16th, usurping many of the functions of the government which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction..
Campana :: Campana (n.) A church bell.
Paregoric :: Paregoric (n.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir..
Servifor :: Servifor (n.) An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities..
Castrametation :: Castrametation (n.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.
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