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.

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.

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.

a genus of terrestrial orchids of North America.

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

Of or pertaining to caloric.

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

A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.

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.

See Calorificient.

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

See Calorificient.

Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.

Production of heat, esp. animal heat.

Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.

An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. For combustion processes, a bomb calorimeter may be used.

Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter.

Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.

A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos.

the Rock of Gibraltar, a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; associated with Britain.

See 2d Calk, v. t.

A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylle/, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic.

A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.

A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.

To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.

False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.

One who calumniates.

Containing calumny; slanderous.

Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.

False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.

The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.

The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem.

a genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores.

To bring forth a calf.

To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver.

Snapdragon.

John Calvin, a French theologian and reformer; born 1509, died 1564.

The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.

A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism.

Of or pertaining to Calvin, or Calvinism; following Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism.

To convert to Calvinism.

Like a calf; stupid.

of or pertaining to a calyx.

Having the form or appearance of a calyx.

Pertaining to a calyx; resembling or having the nature of a calyx.

A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.

Calyculate.

A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.

Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.

A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age.

Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.