Calefacient (a.) Making warm; heating.
Calefacient (n.) A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard.
Calefaction (n.) 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.
Calefaction (n.) The state of being heated.
Calefactive (a.) See Calefactory.
Calefactor (n.) A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
Calefactory (a.) Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.
Calefactory (n.) A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with.
Calefied (imp. & p. p.) of Calefy
Calefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calefy
Calefy (v. i.) To make warm or hot.
Calefy (v. i.) To grow hot or warm.
Calembour (n.) A pun.
Calendar (n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
Calendar (n.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.
Calendar (n.) An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.
Calendared (imp. & p. p.) of Calendar
Calendaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calendar
Calendar (v. t.) To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
Calendarial (a.) Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
Calendary (a.) Calendarial.
Calender (n.) A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
Calender (n.) One who pursues the business of calendering.
Calendered (imp. & p. p.) of Calender
Calendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calender
Calender (n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.
Calender (n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
Calendographer (n.) One who makes calendars.
Calendrer (n.) A person who calenders cloth; a calender.
Calendric (a.) Alt. of Calendrical
Calendrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a calendar.
Calends (n. pl.) The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.
Calendula (n.) 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 (n.) A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
Calenture (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
Calenture (v. i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
Calescence (n.) Growing warmth; increasing heat.
Calves (pl. ) of Calf
Calf (n.) 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.
Calf (n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
Calf (n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
Calf (n.) A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
Calf (n.) A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
Calf (n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
Calfskin (n.) The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.
Cali (n.) The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu.
Caliber (n.) Alt. of Calibre
Calibre (n.) The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber.
Calibre (n.) The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column.
Calibre (n.) Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind.
Calibrate (v. i.) 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 (n.) 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.
Calice (n.) See Chalice.
Calicle (n.) 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.
Calicoes (pl. ) of Calico
Calico (n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
Calico (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
Calico (a.) 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 (n.) The calico bass.
Calicoback (n.) An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.
Calicular (a.) Alt. of Caliculate
Caliculate (a.) Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.
Calid (a.) Hot; burning; ardent.
Calidity (n.) Heat.
Caliduct (n.) A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.
Calif (n.) Alt. of Califate
Califate (n.) Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.
Californian (a.) Of or pertaining to California.
Californian (n.) A native or inhabitant of California.
Caligation (n.) Dimness; cloudiness.
Caliginosity (n.) Darkness.
Caliginous (a.) Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.
Caligo (n.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
Caligraphic (a.) See Calligraphic.
Caligraphy (n.) See Caligraphy.
Calin (n.) An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.
Calipash (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n. pl.) 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 (n.) Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.
Caliphate (n.) The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
Calippic (a.) Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.
Calisaya bark () A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.
Calistheneum (n.) A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children.
Calisthenis (a.) Of or pertaining to calisthenics.
Calisthenics (n.) The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.
Caliver (n.) An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore.
Calix (n.) A cup. See Calyx.
Calked (imp. &p. p.) of Calk
Calking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calk
Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.
Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
Calk (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
Calk (n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.
Calk (n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
Calk (v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
Calk (v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
Calker (n.) One who calks.
Calker (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.