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.

Hot; burning; ardent.

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 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.

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

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.

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

a genus of Asian coral snakes.

a genu sof fur seals.

Of the callosum.

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

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.

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

A plant coif or skullcap. Same as 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.

Hardened; indurated.

having callouses; -- of skin.

lack of passion or feeling.

A kind of duck. See Old squaw.

having a lack of experience of life.

a genus having only one species.

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.

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

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

One who, or that which, makes calm.

tending to soothe or calm or tranquilize.

In a calm manner.

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

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

Tranquil; peaceful; calm.

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

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

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.