a fast-growing tropical American evergreen (Muntingia calabura) having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves.

A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia.

A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.

A mineral. See Turquoise.

A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked.

Squid, used as a food; -- from the Italian word. See Squid.

A fragrant wood; agalloch.

A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers.

Producing reeds; reedy.

A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.

A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the Calamintha Nepeta and Calamintha Acinos, which are called also basil thyme.

One who plays upon a reed or pipe.

To curl or friz, as the hair.

The act or process of curling the hair.

A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonid/), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs.

A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.

Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.

The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

a large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers.

any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise.

A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a closed carriage.

A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

See under Calcite.

Same as Calcite.

See under Calcite.

Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.

One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.

A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.

Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen.

Consisting of, or containing, calcareous and siliceous earths.

Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.

Quality of being calcareous.

Lime-yielding; calciferous

Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.

A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos.

Fitted with, or wearing, shoes.

Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distinction from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.

A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

See Chalcedonic.

Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.

A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

Slipper-shaped. See Calceiform.

See Calx.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.

One of the forms of vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets. It is an unsaturated alcohol (C28H43OH) found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils. It is used as a dietary supplement in milk.

Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.

Calciferous. of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles.

The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.

In the form of chalk or lime.

To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.

Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.

Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.

To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls.

One who calcimines.

That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.

To calcine.

To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.

One who, or that which, calcines.

An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera.

Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.

Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.

To kick.

Act of kicking.

An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.

Eroding, or eating into, limestone.

One who practices calcography.

Relating to, or in the style of, calcography.

The art of drawing with chalk.

That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation.

A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.

To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute.

Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.

The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.

Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation.

One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.

Belonging to calculation.

To calculate

See Calculus.

Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion.

Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

of or pertaining to Calcutta.

A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.]

See Calash.

The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry.

Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch. A native or inhabitant of Caledonia or Scotland.

A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland.

A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard.

The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.

See Calefactory.

A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.

An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.

To grow hot or warm.

A pun.

To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.

Calendarial.

One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.

One who makes calendars.

A person who calenders cloth; a calender.

Of or pertaining to a calendar.

The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.

A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.

To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.

Growing warmth; increasing heat.

The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.

The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu.

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.

The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.

See Chalice.

a deposit of sand or clay on the surface containing crystallized salts such as sodium chloride or sodium nitrate; -- used especially of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru.

covered with caliche{2}, a hard calcium-carbonate encrusted soil.

One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian.

Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.