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CampingCamp Camp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Camped; p. pr. & vb n.
Camping.]
To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we
all would sup together. --Shak. CampingCamping Camp"ing, n.
1. Lodging in a camp.
2. [See Camp, n., 6] A game of football. [Prov. Eng.] ChampingChamp Champ, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Champed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Champing.] [Prob, of Scand. orgin; cf. dial. Sw. k["a]msa
to chew with difficulty, champ; but cf. also OF. champier,
champeyer, champoyer, to graze in fields, fr. F. champ field,
fr. L. campus. Cf. Camp.]
1. To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be
heard.
Foamed and champed the golden bit. --Dryden.
2. To bite into small pieces; to crunch. --Steele. ClampingClamp Clamp (kl[a^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clamped
(kl[a^]mt; 215) p. pr. & vb. n. Clamping.]
1. To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to
place in a clamp.
2. To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [Eng.] CrampingCramp Cramp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cramped (kr?mt; 215); p.
pr. & vb. n. Cramping.]
1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and
contract; to hinder.
The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge
as by ignorance. --Layard.
2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
3. Hence, to bind together; to unite.
The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped
and bolted together in all its parts. --Burke.
4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
5. To afflict with cramp.
When the gout cramps my joints. --Ford.
To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out
of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be
against the body of the wagon. DampingDamp Damp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Damped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Damping.] [OE. dampen to choke, suffocate. See Damp, n.]
1. To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately
wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
2. To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to
cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make
dull; to weaken; to discourage. ``To damp your tender
hopes.' --Akenside.
Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements,
and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring
if it were not for this slug. --Bacon.
How many a day has been damped and darkened by an
angry word! --Sir J.
Lubbock.
The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of
the soldiers. --Macaulay. ElampingElamping E*lamp"ing, a. [See Lamp.]
Shining. [Obs.] --G. Fletcher. EncampingEncamp En*camp", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encamped (?; 215); p.
pr. & vb. n. Encamping.]
To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary
habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch
tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer
time, as an army or a company traveling.
The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of
Rephaim. --1 Chron. xi.
15. Lamping
Lamping Lamp"ing, a.
Shining; brilliant. [Obs.] ``Lamping eyes.' --Spenser.
Pampiniform
Pampiniform Pam*pin"i*form, a. [L. pampinus a tendril +
-form.] (Anat.)
In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the
spermatic and ovarian veins.
RampingRamp Ramp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ramped (?; 215); p. pr. & vb.
n. Ramping.] [F. ramper to creep, OF., to climb; of German
origin; cf. G. raffen to snatch, LG. & D. rapen. See Rap to
snatch, and cf. Romp.]
1. To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to
become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
2. To move by leaps, or by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or
with violence.
Their bridles they would champ,
And trampling the fine element would fiercely ramp.
--Spenser.
3. To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
With claspers and tendrils, they [plants] catch
hold, . . . and so ramping upon trees, they mount up
to a great height. --Ray. StampingStamp Stampv. t. [imp. & p. p. Stamped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stamping.] [OE. stampen; akin to LG. & D. stampen, G.
stampfen, OHG. stanpf?n, Dan. stampe, Sw. stampa, Icel.
stappa, G. stampf a pestle and E. step. See Step, v. i.,
and cf. Stampede.]
1. To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the
foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. --Shak.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
--Dryden.
2. To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor;
as, he stamped his foot with rage.
3. To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by
the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and
burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it
very small. --Deut. ix.
21.
4. To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate
with arms or initials.
5. Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp
virtuous principles on the heart.
God . . . has stamped no original characters on our
minds wherein we may read his being. --Locke.
6. To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc.,
into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure
with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
7. To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter;
to stamp a legal document.
To stamp out, to put an end to by sudden and energetic
action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion. SwampingSwamp Swamp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swamped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Swamping.]
1. To plunge or sink into a swamp.
2. (Naut.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to
capsize or sink by whelming with water.
3. Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to
overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped
by the creation of twelve Tory peers. --J. R. Green.
Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus
of a theory. --Sir W.
Hamilton. TampingTamp Tamp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tamping.] [Cf. F. tamponner to plug or stop. See
Tampion.]
1. In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod,
or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to
prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
2. To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to
tamp earth so as to make a smooth place. TampingTamping Tamp"ing, n.
1. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling
up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the
purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.
2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.
Tamping iron, an iron rod for beating down the earthy
substance in tamping for blasting. Tamping ironTamping Tamp"ing, n.
1. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling
up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the
purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.
2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.
Tamping iron, an iron rod for beating down the earthy
substance in tamping for blasting. TrampingTramp Tramp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tramped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tramping.] [OE. trampen; akin to LG. trampen, G. trampeln,
LG. & D. trappen, Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth.
anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe
steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, Trape, Trip, v.
i., Tread.]
1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
[Colloq.]
3. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
[Scot.] --Jamieson. VampingVamp Vamp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vamped (?; 215); p. pr. & vb.
n. Vamping.]
To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to
piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to
patch; -- often followed by up.
I had never much hopes of your vamped play. --Swift.
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