资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {Flying army} (Mil.) a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in
      motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy
      in continual alarm. --Farrow. 

   {Flying artillery} (Mil.), artillery trained to rapid
      evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to
      spring upon the guns and caissons when they change
      position.

   {Flying bridge}, {Flying camp}. See under {Bridge}, and
      {Camp}.

   {Flying buttress} (Arch.), a contrivance for taking up the
      thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by
      ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of
      masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid
      pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The
      word is generally applied only to the straight bar with
      supporting arch.

   {Flying colors}, flags unfurled and waving in the air; hence:

   {To come off with flying colors}, to be victorious; to
      succeed thoroughly in an undertaking.

   {Flying doe} (Zo["o]l.), a young female kangaroo.

   {Flying dragon}.
   (a) (Zo["o]l.) See {Dragon}, 6.
   (b) A meteor. See under {Dragon}.

   {Flying Dutchman}.
   (a) A fabled Dutch mariner condemned for his crimes to sail
       the seas till the day of judgment.
   (b) A spectral ship.

   {Flying fish}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Flying fish}, in the
      Vocabulary.

   {Flying fox} (Zo["o]l.), the colugo.

   {Flying frog} (Zo["o]l.), an East Indian tree frog of the
      genus {Rhacophorus}, having very large and broadly webbed
      feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make
      very long leaps.

   {Flying gurnard} (Zo["o]l.), a species of gurnard of the
      genus {Cephalacanthus} or {Dactylopterus}, with very large
      pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying
      fish, but not for so great a distance.

   Note: Three species are known; that of the Atlantic is
         {Cephalacanthus volitans}.

   {Flying jib} (Naut.), a sail extended outside of the standing
      jib, on the flying-jib boom.

   {Flying-jib boom} (Naut.), an extension of the jib boom.

   {Flying kites} (Naut.), light sails carried only in fine
      weather.

   {Flying lemur}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Colugo}.

   {Flying level} (Civil Engin.), a reconnoissance level over
      the course of a projected road, canal, etc.

   {Flying lizard}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Dragon}, n. 6.

   {Flying machine}, an apparatus for navigating the air; a form
      of balloon. -- {Flying mouse} (Zo["o]l.), the opossum
      mouse ({Acrobates pygm[ae]us}), of Australia.

   Note: It has lateral folds of skin, like the flying
         squirrels. -- {Flying party} (Mil.), a body of soldiers
      detailed to hover about an enemy. -- {Flying phalanger}
      (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of small marsuupials of
      the genera {Petaurus} and {Belideus}, of Australia and New
      Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying
      squirrels. The sugar squirrel ({B. sciureus}), and the
      ariel ({B. ariel}), are the best known; -- called also
      {squirrel petaurus} and {flying squirrel}. See {Sugar
      squirrel}. -- {Flying pinion}, the fly of a clock. --
   {Flying sap} (Mil.), the rapid construction of trenches (when
      the enemy's fire of case shot precludes the method of
      simple trenching), by means of gabions placed in
      juxtaposition and filled with earth. -- {Flying shot}, a
      shot fired at a moving object, as a bird on the wing. --
   {Flying spider}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Ballooning spider}. --
   {Flying squid} (Zo["o]l.), an oceanic squid ({Ommastrephes,
      or Sthenoteuthis, Bartramii}), abundant in the Gulf
      Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such
      force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel. --
   {Flying squirrel} (Zo["o]l.) See {Flying squirrel}, in the
      Vocabulary. -- {Flying start}, a start in a sailing race
      in which the signal is given while the vessels are under
      way. -- {Flying torch} (Mil.), a torch attached to a long
      staff and used for signaling at night.

Camp \Camp\, n. [F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus plant, field;
   akin to Gr. ? garden. Cf. {Campaing}, {Champ}, n.]
   1. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected
      for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. --Shzk.

   2. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly
      arranged in an orderly manner.

            Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. --W.
                                                  Irving.

   3. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

   4. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers,
      of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.

            The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   5. (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other
      vegetables are stored for protection against frost; --
      called also {burrow} and {pie}. [Prov. Eng.]

   6. [Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See {champion}.] An
      ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
      --Halliwell.

   {Camp bedstead}, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto
      a small space for easy transportation.

   {camp ceiling} (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics
      or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at
      the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the
      plane surface of the upper ceiling.

   {Camp chair}, a light chair that can be folded up compactly
      for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made
      of strips or pieces of carpet.

   {Camp fever}, typhus fever.

   {Camp follower}, a civilian accompanying an army, as a
      sutler, servant, etc.

   {Camp meeting}, a religious gathering for open-air preaching,
      held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It
      usually last for several days, during which those present
      lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.

   {Camp stool}, the same as {camp chair}, except that the stool
      has no back.

   {Flying camp} (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for
      rapid motion from one place to another. --Farrow.

   {To pitch (a) camp}, to set up the tents or huts of a camp.
      

   {To strike camp}, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.