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Calendarial

Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.

Calender

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

Calendrer

A person who calenders cloth; a calender.

Calends

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

Calendula

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.

Calendulin

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

Calenture

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

Calf

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.

Calfskin

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

Cali

The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu.

Calibrate

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.

Calibration

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.

caliche

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.

caliche-topped

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

Calicle

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.

Calico

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.

Calicoback

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

Caliculate Calicular

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

Calid

Hot; burning; ardent.

Caliduct

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

Californian

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

Caliginous

Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

Caligo

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

Calin

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

Calipash

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.

Calipee

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.

Calipers

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.

Caliph

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.

Caliphate

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

Calippic

Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.

Calistheneum

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

Calisthenics

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

Caliver

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

Calk

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

Calkin

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

Calking

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

Call

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.

call-back

a return call, especially a telephone call.

call-board

a bulletin board backstage in a theater.

Calla

A genus of plants, of the order Arace/.

callable

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

Calle

A kind of head covering; a caul.

Caller

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

Callid

Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.

Callidity

Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.

Callimorpha

a genus of insects comprising the cinnabar moths.

Callinectes

a genus of crustaceans comprising the New World blue crabs.

Calling

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

Calliope

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

Calliophis

a genus comprising the Asian coral snakes.

Calliopsis

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

Callirhoe

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

Callisaurus

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

Callisection

Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.

Callistephus

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

Callithrix

the type genus of the Callithricidae; the true marmosets.

Callithump

A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.

Callitris

a genus of evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs; the cypress pines.

Callose

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

Callosity

A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.

Callosum

The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.

Callot

A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.

Callot Calotte

A close cap without visor or brim. Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.

Callow

A kind of duck. See Old squaw.

Calluna

a genus having only one species.

Callus

Same as Callosity The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.

callyciflorous Calycifloral

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

Calm

Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.

Calmer

One who, or that which, makes calm.

calming

tending to soothe or calm or tranquilize.

Calmness

The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.

Calmucks

A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks.

Calmy

Tranquil; peaceful; calm.

Calocedrus

a genus of tall evergreens of West North America and East Asia; formerly included in genus Libocedrus.

Calochortus

large genus of West North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs.

Calomel

Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.

Calopogon

a genus of terrestrial orchids of North America.

Calorescence

The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.

Caloric

Of or pertaining to caloric.

Caloricity

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.

Caloriduct

A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.

Calorie

The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0/ to 1/. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound.

Calorifere

An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.

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