camocat, camacat

[ME. camaca, cammaka, especially mentioned), for civic robes, and for bed hangs ings. My great bed of blue camaka with griffins, also another bed of camaka striped with white and black. Will of Lord Despenser (1375), quoted in Rock. camomile, chamomile (kam'ō-mil), n. [The spelling chamomile is recent, and in imitation of the Latin; early mod. E. camomil, camamel (E. dial. camil), camomylle = D. MHG. G. kamille = Dan. kamille ( -blomst ) = Sw. kamill ( -blomma ), mille , F. camomille = Pr. It. camomilla = Sp. camomila = Pg. camomele , cam a mill a , camomilla , chamomilla and prop. chamame lon, hum i : see hum ble2), + μῆλον, an apple, L. malum . Cf. cha meleon .] The common name of An them is no bilis , low creeping composite plant of Europe, with strongly scented foliage, which has long been in cultivation and of popular repute as a bitter stomachic and ton ic. The camomile Camomile (An them is nobilis). flowers of commerce are the product of a cultivated double variety, known as the garden or Roman camomile. The single form is distinguished as Scotch camomile. It was formerly imagined that the more the plant was trodden upon the more luxuriantly it grew, and this was a favorite subject of allusion in ancient writers. The corn or field. camomile, An them is arvensis, is sparingly naturalized in the United States. The dog's or stinking camomile, A. Cotula, is more usually known as mayweed. The yellow camomile, A. tinct or i a, with yellow-rayed flowers, is sometimes cultivated for ornament and yields a yellow dye. The German of of flower-heads of Matric aria Chamomile stone is wer heads IMG:content-2985.png:[blocks in formation] Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.