Calkin (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
Calking (n.) The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.
Called (imp. & p. p.) of Call
Calling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Call
Call (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
Call (v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
Call (v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
Call (v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
Call (v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
Call (v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
Call (v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.
Call (v. t.) To invoke; to appeal to.
Call (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
Call (v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
Call (v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request.
Call (v. i.) To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
Call (n.) 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 (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
Call (n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
Call (n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
Call (n.) A divine vocation or summons.
Call (n.) Vocation; employment.
Call (n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
Call (n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
Call (n.) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
Call (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
Call (n.) See Assessment, 4.
Calla (n.) A genus of plants, of the order Araceae.
Callat (n.) Same as Callet.
Calle (n.) A kind of head covering; a caul.
Caller (n.) One who calls.
Caller (a.) Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air.
Caller (a.) Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.
Callet (n.) A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.
Callet (v. i.) To rail or scold.
Callid (a.) Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.
Callidity (n.) Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
Calligrapher (n.) One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
Calligraphic (a.) Alt. of Calligraphical
Calligraphical (a.) Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
Calligraphist (n.) A calligrapher
Calligraphy (n.) Fair or elegant penmanship.
Calling (n.) The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.
Calling (n.) A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament.
Calling (n.) A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.
Calling (n.) A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.
Calling (n.) One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.
Calling (n.) The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.
Calling (n.) Title; appellation; name.
Calliope (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
Calliope (n.) One of the asteroids. See Solar.
Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.
Calliope (n.) A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.
Calliopsis (n.) A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
Callipash (n.) See Calipash.
Callipee (n.) See Calipee.
Callipers (n. pl.) See Calipers.
Callisection (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
Callisthenic (n.) Alt. of Callisthenics
Callisthenics (n.) See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
Callithump (n.) A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
Callithumpian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
Callosan (a.) Of the callosum.
Callose (a.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
Callosities (pl. ) of Callosity
Callosity (n.) 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 (n.) The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
Callot (n.) A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
Callous (a.) Hardened; indurated.
Callous (a.) Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
Callow (a.) Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.
Callow (a.) Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth.
Callow (n.) A kind of duck. See Old squaw.
Callus (n.) Same as Callosity
Callus (n.) 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.
Callus (n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
Calm (n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.
Calmed (imp. & p. p.) of Calm
Calming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calm
Calm (n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.
Calm (n.) To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.
Calm (super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.
Calm (super.) Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.
Calmer (n.) One who, or that which, makes calm.
Calmly (adv.) In a calm manner.
Calmness (n.) The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.
Calmucks (n. pl.) A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks.
Calmy (n.) Tranquil; peaceful; calm.
Calomel (n.) 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.
Calorescence (n.) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.
Caloric (n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
Caloric (a.) Of or pertaining to caloric.
Caloricity (n.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
Caloriduct (n.) A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
Calorie (n.) 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.
Calorifacient (a.) See Calorificient.
Calorifere (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.