Word Meanings - CAMPHORACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. Dunglison.

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• CAMPHORACEOUS
  Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. Dunglison.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CAMPHORIC
  Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor. Camphoric acid, a white crystallizable substance, C10H16O4, obtained from the oxidation of camphor. Note: Other acid of camphor are campholic acid, C10H18O2, and camphoronic acid, C9H12O5, white
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• CAMPHORATE
  A salt of camphoric acid.
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• NATURELESS
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
• CAMPHORATE; CAMPORATED
  Combined or impregnated with camphor. Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• NATURE
  1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
• CAMPHOR
  camfara, alcanfor, LL. camfora, camphara, NGr. kafur, prob. fr. Skr. 1. A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnæus.). Camphor,
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• CONSIGNATURE
  Joint signature. Colgrave.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• TRANSNATURE
  To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
• DENATURE
  To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.
• SIGNATURE
  An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well
• DISNATURED
  Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak.
• GOOD-NATUREDLY
  With maldness of temper.