camphrier, n.m., (bot.) camphor-tree.
campine, n.m., fine fat pullet.
campos, n.m., play-day, holiday, relaxation. Les écoliers demandent —; the boys ask for a holiday. Prendre —; to take a holiday.
camus, -e, adj., flat-nosed; disappointed, baulked; dumbfounded. Un vilain —; an ugly flat-nosed fellow. La —e; (pop.) death, grim death.
*canaille, n.f., rabble, riff-raff, mob; scum; scoundrel; noisy children, brats. Hors d’ici, —! begone, you scoundrel! Vile —; miserable scum. Ces —s de domestiques; these rascally servants!
canaillerie, n.f., blackguardism.
canal, n.m., canal, pipe; conduit, duct; drain; tube; spout; watercourse (of water-mills); channel, bed, strait; (arch.) fluting, means. Creuser un —; to dig a canal. Ce pays est tout coupé de canaux; that country is quite intersected with canals. — latéral, — de dérivation; lateral drain. — de cheminée; chimney-flue. — d’irrigation; trench for irrigation. — thoracique; thoracic duct. — de larmier; (arch.) channel of a coping. Il est le — de toutes les grâces; all favors come through him. Faire —; to cross a strait.
canaliculé, -e, adj., (bot.) channeled, furrowed.
canalisation, n.f., canalization.
canaliser, v.a., to establish canals, to intersect with canals.