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Camass \Cam"ass\, n. [American Indian name.] (Bot.)
any of several plants of the genus Camassia of North and
South America, especially the blue-flowered liliaceous plant
({Camassia esculenta}) of northwestern America, the bulbs of
which were collected for food by the Indians. [Written also
{camas}, {cammas}, and {quamash}.]
Syn: camass, quamash, camosh, camash.
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Note: The {Eastern cammass} is {Camassia Fraseri}.
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Cammas \Cam"mas\, n. (Bot.)
See {Camass}.
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Archi- \Ar"chi-\ [L., archi-, Gr. 'archi-, a prefix which is
from the same root as 'a`rchein to be first, to begin; 'archh
the first place, beginning; 'archo`s chief. Cf. AS. arce-,
erce-, OHG. erzi-, G. erz-.]
A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect,
archiepiscopal. In (Biol.) and (Anat.) it usually means
primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the
primitive fin or wing.
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antitrust \antitrust\ adj.
1. opposed to trusts, monopolies, or other large combinations
of business or capital which threaten fair competition;
designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair
business practices; -- of laws and regulations.
Syn: antimonopoly.
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Apodan \Ap"o*dan\, a. (Zool.)
Apodal.
[1913 Webster] Apodeictical
Apodictic
Apodeictic
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Blot \Blot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Blotting}.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d {Blot}.]
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1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
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The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.
--Gascoigne.
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2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
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It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
--Shak.
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3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
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Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --Rowe.
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4. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface;
-- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a
sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.
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One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
--Dryden.
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5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
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He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
--Cowley.
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6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
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Syn: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish;
disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.
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