came3 (kam)

[Prob. a particular use of came2 = cam1 = comb1.] 1. The batch or amount of lead nece ary to make sash-bars for 100 square feet of glazing; also, this amount cast into small rods or bars 12 or 14 inches long, and ready for drawing. Hence-2. The pre pared sash-bar itself, having a section like an I, more or le rounded at each end, and called in technical language glaziers turned lead or IMG:content-2976.png:[blocks in formation] 776 called by a name derived from that of the elephant: Goth. ulbandus = OHG. olbentā, MHG. olbente = AS. olfend = OS. olbhunt = Icel. ul faldi, a camel.] 1. A large ruminant quadruped of the family Camelid a, genus Camel us, used in Asia and Africa as a beast of burden. There are two distinct species of camels: (1) The Arabian on camel, the fore C. drome dari us, legs and two with on one the hump, hind legs. and four It is callosities a native of Arabia, and is now known only in the domesticated state; it is used chiefly in Arabia and Egypt. There are several breeds or artificial varieties. The dromedary is one of these, being simply a "blooded" or thoroughbred camel of great speed and bottom, used as a saddle-animal, and comparing with the heavier and slower varieties as a race-horse does with a cart-horse; it is not a different animal zoologically speaking. (2) The Bactrian camel, C. bactrianus, with two humps, of which there are also dif Bactrian Camel ( Camel us bactrianus). ferent breeds. The name camel is sometimes applied to the species of the American genus Auchenia, as the llama, alpaca, and vicuña, collectively known as the camels of the new world. The camel is poetically called the ship of the desert. Camels constitute the riches of an Arabian; without them he could not subsist, carry on trade, or travel over sandy deserts. Their milk and flesh are used for food and their hides for leather, and their hair is a valuable article of trade and manufacture. By the camel's power of sustaining abstinence from drink for many days, due to the reserve it can carry in its peculiarly constructed cellular stomach, and of subsisting on a few coarse, dry, prickly plants, it is especially fitted for the parched and barren lands of Asia and Africa. Camels carry from 600 to 1,000 pounds burden. 2. A water-tight structure placed beneath a ship or ve el to raise it in the water, in order to a ist its pa age over a shoal or bar, or to enable it to be navigated in shallow water. It is first filled with water and sunk alongside the ve el, to which it is then secured. As the water is pumped out, the camel gradually rises, lifting the ve el with it. Camels have also been used for raising sunken ve els. - Camel's hair, the hair of the camel, from which very fine fabrics, especially shawls, are made in the East, and also carpets, tent-cloths, etc. In Europe it is used chiefly for mixing with hair pencils or brushes used in painting are not made of camel's hair, but commonly of hair from the tails of Ru ian and Siberian squirrels. See brush. - Camel's-hair cloth. (a) An Oriental fabric. See putto. (b) A French imitation of this fabric; a warm and light woolen cloth with a glo , but having long hairs standing up upon it. Dict. of Needlework. Camel's-hair shawl, a name often given in the United States to the cashmere shawl. Camel's hay. Same camel - gra . Camel's wool, mohair. silk. The best comes from Persia. The so-called camel's camelaucium (kam-e-las i-um), n.; pl. camelau cia (-a). [ML. camelacium, camelaucium, more frequently camelaucum, calamaucum, etc., Having a