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.

The calico bass. An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.

Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.

Heat.

A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.

Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.

Of or pertaining to California. A native or inhabitant of California.

Dimness; cloudiness.

Darkness.

Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.

See Calligraphic.

See Caligraphy.

An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.

A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.

A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy.

An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses.

Successor or vicar; the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, used formerly by the sultans of Turkey.

The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.

Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.

A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children.

Of or pertaining to calisthenics.

The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength, gracefulness, and general fitness; light gymnastics.

An early form of hand gun, a variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore.

A cup. See Calyx.

To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.

One who calks.

A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.

The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.

The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.

a return call, especially a telephone call.

a bulletin board backstage in a theater.

A genus of plants, of the order Arace/.

subject to a demand for payment or redemption before the due date; -- of financial instruments; as, callable bonds.

Same as Callet.

a noisy boisterous parade.

A kind of head covering; a caul.

Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air.

To rail or scold.

Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.

Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.

One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

Of or pertaining to calligraphy.

A calligrapher

Fair or elegant penmanship.

a genus of insects comprising the cinnabar moths.

a genus of crustaceans comprising the New World blue crabs.

The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.

a natural family comprising the dragonets.

The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.

a genus comprising the Asian coral snakes.

A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to Coreopsis tinctoria of Arkansas.

See Calipash.

See Calipee.

See Calipers.

a natural family comprising the blowflies.

small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers.

a genus of lizards including the the zebra-tailed lizard.

Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.

a genus of plants having only one species, an erect Asiatic herb with large flowers.

See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.

a natural family comprising the marmosets.

the type genus of the Callithricidae; the true marmosets.