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{ Cam"o*mile, Cham"o*mile } (?),
n.[LL. camonilla, corrupted fr. Gr. &?;,
lit. earth apple, being so called from the smell of its flower.
See Humble, and Melon.] (Bot.) A genus
of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common
camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its
flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste.
They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the
volatile oil is carminative.

||Ca*mon"flet (?), n. [F.]
(Mil.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or
side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the
retreat of the miners. Farrow.

{ Ca"mous (?), Ca"moys (?), }
a. [F. camus (equiv. to camard)
flat-nosed, fr. Celtic Cam croked + suff. -us; akin
to L. camur, camurus, croked.] Flat;
depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose. [Obs.]

Ca"moused, (&?;), a. [From
Camouse] Depressed; flattened. [Obs.]

Though my nose be cammoused.

B. Jonson

Ca"mous*ly, adv.


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