Cambist
(Cam"bist) n. [F. cambiste, It. cambista, fr. L. cambire to exchange. See Change.] A
banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science
of exchange.
Cambistry
(Cam"bist*ry) n. The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.
Cambium
(Cam"bi*um) n. [LL. cambium exchange, fr. L. cambire to exchange. It was supposed that
cambium was sap changing into wood.]
1. (Bot.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The
growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.
2. (Med.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the
system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.
Camblet
(Cam"blet) n. See Camlet.
Camboge
(Cam*boge") n. See Gamboge.
Camboose
(Cam*boose") n. (Naut.) See Caboose.
Cambrasine
(Cam"bra*sine) n. A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance
to cambric.
Cambrel
(Cam"brel) n. See Gambrel, n., 2. Wright.
Cambria
(Cam"bri*a) n. The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets.
Cambrian
(Cam"bri*an) a.
1. (Geog.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.
2. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; —
sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales.
See the Diagram under Geology.
Cambrian
(Cam"bri*an), n.
1. A native of Cambria or Wales.
2. (Geol.) The Cambrian formation.
Cambric
(Cam"bric) n. [OE. camerike, fr. Cambrai a city of France where it was first made.]
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.
He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns.
Shak.
2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various
colors; — also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin.
Cambro-Briton
(Cam"bro-Brit"on) n. A Welshman.
Came
(Came) imp. of Come.
