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Webster 1913 Edition


Camel-backed

Cam′el-backedˊ

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Adj.
Having a back like a camel; humpbacked.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Camel-backed

CAMEL-BACKED

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Adj.
Having a back like a camel.
Cameleon mineral. [See Chameleon.] A compound of pure potash and black oxyd of manganese, fused together, whose solution in water, at first green, passes spontaneously through the whole series of colored rays to the red; and by the addition of potash, it returns to its original green.