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camp, asseoir un , to pitch a camp;
assiette d'un , site ofa camp";
baraque,
de Icraques. hut-camp;
& cheval (sur un cours^ d'eau), camp with a
stream running through it ;
decousu. camp irregularly laid out;
defensif, v. re t -anche;
dresser un to , lay cut a camp;
itablir un , to pitch ;x camp;
d'exercice, camp of in itruction;
fixe, permanent can: r,
garde dit , camp-, qu; rter-guard;
d' instruction, camp >! instruction, of exercise
(to-day in France s.-nonymous with champ
de tir, target-practice caVnp) ;
lever le ,
to strike camp;
line of encampment,
ligne magistrate d'un ,
color-line;
maladie de , camp fever; typhus;
de manoeuvre, camp of exercise, instruction
(almost obs.);
de marche, temporarj camp;
marechal de , major-general (obs.);
marquer un , to lay out a camp;
offensif, the camp of a besieging army;
de passage, passager, temporary camp;
de rassemblement, camp in which troops are
assembled previous to a campaign (common
in United States in 1861 and in 1898);
retranche, (formerly) any intrenched camp;
a camp under the walls of a fortress and commanded
by its guns (Vauban. obs.); (to-day)
a military position, strongly fortified and intrenched,
and supported by' permanent works,
behind which position an army may refit,
recruit, etc. (In other words . a camp retranche
means a place & forts detaches, an equivalent
that is semiofficial in France, though held inaccurate
by some writers. Cther authorities
go so far as to say that the expression camp retranche
should be banished from the military
vocabulary);
de sejour, permanent camp;
service de , camp duties;
de siege, camp of a besieging army, siegecamp;
tendu, tente, de tentes, camp under
canvas, regular camp;
tracer un to , lay out a camp ;
volant, flying, temporary camp.
campagne, f., country; (mil.) campaign, service
in a campaign; series of military operations;
a whole war (rare); (the) field;
annee de , v. s. v. annee;
artillerie de , (art.) field artillery;
avoir, avoir fait, (tant de) , to have so many
years' service;
avoir fait la de, to have served in such and
such a campaign:
battre la , (mil.) to scout; to make incursions
in the enemy's country;
couverture de , soldier's blanket;
decompte des s, estimation of campaigns in
length of service, v. s. v. annee;
demi , (Fr. a.) half-campaign, allowance of
half the time actually served on a man-of-war
(peace), or in ports or seacoast forts (war), v. s.
v. annee;
en in , the field;
entrer en , to take the field;
etre en , to be in the field;
faire , to take the field;
faire une , to serve throwgh or in a cam-
inite d'entree en , ( Fr. adm.) allowance
(of money) paid to an officer joining an army
in the field, or a mobilized body of troops;
mettre en , to put or bring into the field;
se mettre en , to take the field;
ouvrir la contre, to take the field against;
piece de , (art.) field piece;
en rase , in the open field;
tenir la , to hold the country, keep the field;
tenue de , (unif.) field dress; marching order
for the field,
campeciie, m., Campeachy wood, logwood.
eampement, m., (mil.) encampment; (synonym
of) camp; the establisnment of a camp; party
sent forward to select a cantonment or bivouac;
camping-party (U. S: A.);
chef, commandant, du , officer or n. c. o. In
command of a campcment;
couverture de , soldier's blanket;
effets, materiel, de , camp equipage;
service administratif du , (Fr. adm.) department
that furnishes material for shelter and
bedding in camps and cantonments.
camper, v. n., (mil.) to camp, encamp;
en potence, to camp with flanks thrown back.
camper, m., (hipp.) spreading out of the four feet
from the normal and regular base of support
(manner of standing in which the horse does
not keep his feet well under him, but spreads
them out front and rear).
camphre, m., camphor;
poudre, (expl.) camphorated powder.
camphrer, v. a., (expl.) to camphorate.
campylomttre, m., improved curvimeter, instrument
to measure lengths of curves on maps,
camus, a., flat-nosed;
cheval & tete e, (hipp.) hollow-nosed horse.
can, m., edge (as of an armor plate).
canal, m., canal; channel, bed, bed of a river;
groove; conduit, tube, drain; (art.) rear-sight
socket; (fond.) drain-metal;
d'aerage, air-hole, ventilating flue;
d'amorce, (expl.) detonator-hole of a guncotton
disk; (art.) vent channel of percussion
locks (obs.);
d'assechement, drainage-canal;
de baguette, (sm. a.) ramrod groove;
du canon, (sm. a.) barrel groove of the stock;
de communication, (art.) communicating
groove or channel of a fuse;
de coulage, (fond.} v. de coulee;
de coulee, (fond.) runner; (less accurately)
gate,ingate;
de derivation, supply channel (ofa mill);
de dessechement, v. d'assechement;
d'ecoulement, channel of a river;
event, (art.) flame passage of a fuse;
de fuite, waste channel for escape of water
after use in a mill;
fusant, (art.) time-train; time-channel, of a
fuse;
de hausse, (art.) rear-sight socket or slot;
longitudinal, (art.) powder channel of a fuse;
de lumiere, (art.) vent;
: de navigation, ship canal;
du percuteur, (sm.a.)seat of the firing-pin or
striker;
- de poulie, channel of a block, pulley;
de la tige, (mach., etc.) piston-hole;
de visee, (art.) aiming slot or hole (Griison
turret, etc.).
caiiali, m., (cons.) sort of roofing tile, convex upward,
used in combination with tegoles, q. v.
canalisation, f., the confinement of a river between
artificial banks ; sewerage ; operation of digging
canals; (steam) connections (generic term);
(elec.) wiring (with specialreference to conduits
or channels).
canaliser, v. a., to inclose a river between artificial
banks; to render navigable (a stream); to
dig canals ; (elec. ) to wire (with specialreferenee
to conduits, etc.).
canapsa, m., tool-bag; (mil.) knapsack (obs.).
canarder, v. a., (mil.) to fire somewhat at random,
from under cover.
canardiere, f., (sm. a.) duck-gun.
eandelaetion, f., (met.) state of being at a white
heat.
candelette, f., (cord.) burton, top-burton; fishtackle.
canevas, m., canvas, sailcloth; (surv., top.) network
of triangles, triangulation, skeleton of
triangles ;
de detail, triangulation that forms the immediate
basis for filling in, whether of details
of surface or of leveling;