encamp, encampe

i. & t. [Pref. en =in, and Eng. camp (q. v.).] A. In trans.: To pitch or fix tents; to halt for a time on a march, and form an encampment; to settle down temporarily. "Vercingetorix chose a place to encampe in, fortified wyth woodes and man's groundes." -Golding: Cæsar, fo. 185. B. Trans.: To form into or settle in a camp; to cause to make an encampment. "Encamping both their powers, divided by a brook." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 22. ěn-cămp-Ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [ENCAMP.] 1643 style were common in Greece and Rome. The credit to Gausias, of Sicyon, 33 B. C., as the inventor, is rather to be taken as an indication that he was an improver. The term encaustic at the present day is mostly confined to colors burnt in on vitreous or ceramic ware. By the ancient method, according to Pliny, the colors were made up into crayons with wax, and, the subject being traced on the ground with a metallic point, the colors were melted on the picture as they were used. A coating of melted wax was then evenly spread over all, and, when it was quite cold, was polished. The art was revived by Count Caylus in 1753. encaustic-brick, s . A brick ornamented with various colors baked and glazed. Diodorus Siculus relates that the bricks of the walls of Babylon, erected under the orders of Semi ram is, "had all sorts of living creatures portrayed in various colors upon the bricks before they were burnt." encaustic-painting, s. [ENCAUSTIC, 8.] encaustic-tile, s. several colors. A mold is prepared which has a An ornamental tile having raised device on its face so as to leave an impre ion in the face of the tile cast therein. This intaglio rece is then filled by a trowel with clay com A. & B. As pr . par . & particip. adj.: (See the pounds, in the liquid or slip state, and which verb.) C. As subst.: A camp, an encampment. "In such and such a place shall be my camp [in the margin, encamping ]."-2 Kings vi. 8.