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‖n. [ F. , fr. campagne field. ] (Zool.) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. campagne, It. campagna, fr. L. Campania the level country about Naples, fr. campus field. See Camp, and cf. Champaign, Champagne. ] 1. An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Political operations preceding an election, by candidates, their assistants, and supporters, for the purpose of convincing voters to vote for the candidate. It usually consists of one or more methods of contacting voters including advertising, distribution or mailing of printed leaflets or letters; speeches, interviews with news media, and door-to-door visits with potential voters. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. Hence: Any coordinated effort to contact potential supporters or customers and solicit their support or patronage; as, an advertising campaign. [ PJC ]

5. (Metal.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To serve in a campaign. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. one who is campaigning, especially a politician running for elective office, or one of his/her supporters. [ PJC ]

n. The campaign of a candidate to be elected.
Syn. -- candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. campana bell. Cf. Campanle. ] 1. (Eccl.) A church bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The pasque flower. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Doric Arch.) Same as Gutta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., a bellman. ] (Zool.) The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Campana. ] (Her.) Bells. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ See Campaig. ] Open country. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. campana bell + -form: cf. F. companiforme. ] Bell-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. campanile bell tower, steeple, fr. It. & LL. campana bell. ] (Arch.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of the campaniles of Italy are lofty and magnificent structures. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Campaniform. ] Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. campana bell + -logy. ] The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ LL. campanula a little bell; dim. of campana bell. ] (Bot.) A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of flowering plants, which in some classifications includes the Lobeliaciae.
Syn. -- family Campanulaceae, bellflower family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Campanulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of plants which includes the Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Stylidiaceae; Calyceraceae; and Compositae.
Syn. -- order Campanulales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. shaped like a bell or campana; campaniform.
Syn. -- campanulate, campanulated, campaniform, campaniliform. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. campanula a bell. ] (Zool.) A hydroid of the family Campanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Bell-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Champaign. ] A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Champagne properly includes several kinds not only of sparkling but of still wines; but in America the term is usually restricted to wines which effervesce. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flat; open; level. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wide, champaign country, filled with herds. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. champaigne; same word as campagne. ] A flat, open country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. énulecampane, NL. inula campana; L. inula elecampane + LL. campana a bell; cf. G. glockenwurz, i. e., “bellwort.” ] 1. (Bot.) A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hippocampus. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to stuff; to fill completely and tightly; to jam{ 1 }.
Syn. -- jel, gel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a kind of sedan chair used in India. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; , &unr_;. See Lamp. ] A lamp or candlestick. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By him who 'mid the golden lampads went. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, torch. See Lamp. ] (Gr. Antiq.) One who gained the prize in the lampadrome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;, &unr_;, torch + &unr_; course, race, fr. &unr_; to run. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lampas. ] An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. lampate. ] (Chem.) A supposed salt of lampic acid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A plain. See pampas. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] (Zool.) Same as Pompano. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain. ] Vast grass-covered plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains east of the Andes extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pampas cat (Zool.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat. --
Pampas deer (Zool.), a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus campestris syn. Blastocerus campestris). --
Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. High-spirited; rampageous. [ Slang ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ramp, v. ] Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [ Prov. or Low ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage. [ Prov. or Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant. [ Prov. or Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the primitive ages of a rampageous antiquity. Galt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. ramp a prostitute, or rabble. ] A mean wretch. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance. “They are come to this height and rampancy of vice.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., p. pr. of ramper to creep. See Ramp, v. ] 1. Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fierce lion in his kind
Which goeth rampant after his prey. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The ] lion . . . rampant shakes his brinded mane. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rampant stalk is of unusual altitude. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rampant arch. (a) An arch which has one abutment higher than the other. (b) Same as Rampant vault, below. --
Rampant gardant (Her.), rampant, but with the face turned to the front. --
Rampant regardant, rampant, but looking backward. --
Rampant vault (Arch.), a continuous wagon vault, or cradle vault, whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane, such as the vault supporting a stairway, or forming the ceiling of a stairway. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a rampant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. rempart, OF. rempar, fr. remparer to fortify, se remparer to fence or intrench one's self; pref. re- re- + pref. en- (L. in) + parer to defend, parry, prepare, L. parare to prepare. See Pare. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but in modern usage a distinction has sprung up between them. The rampart of a fortified place is the enceinte or entire main embankment or wall which surrounds it. The term bulwark is now applied to peculiarly strong outworks which project for the defense of the rampart, or main work. A single bastion is a bulwark. In using these words figuratively, rampart is properly applied to that which protects by walling out; bulwark to that which stands in the forefront of danger, to meet and repel it. Hence, we speak of a distinguished individual as the bulwark, not the rampart, of the state. This distinction, however, is often disregarded. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ramparted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ramparting. ] To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those grassy hills, those glittering dells,
Proudly ramparted with rocks. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rampart gun (Fort.), a cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and not as a fieldpiece. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Naut.) A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters. [ Written also sanpan. ] [ 1913 Webster ]