CALIGRAPHY
CALIGRAPHY,CALIGRAPHYIC, noun [Infra.] Pertaining to elegant penmanship.
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CALIGRAPHYIC
CALIGRAPHYIC, n. [Infra.] Pertaining to elegant penmanship.
CALIN
CALIN, noun A compound metal, of which the Chinese make tea canisters and the like. The ingredients seem to be lead and tin.
CALIPHATE
CALIPHATE or KALIFATE, noun The office or dignity of a calif; or the government of a calif.
CALIVER
CALIVER, noun [from caliber.] A kind of handgun, musket or arquebuse.
CALK
CALK, verb transitive cauk.1. To drive oakum or old ropes untwised, into the seams of a ship or other vessel, to prevent their leaking, or admitting water. After the seams are f...
CALKED
CALKED, participle passive Cauked. Having the seams stopped; furnished with shoes with iron points.
CALKER
CALKER, noun Cauker. A man who calks; sometimes perhaps a calk or pointed iron on a house-shoe.
CALKIN
CALKIN, noun A calk.
CALKING
CALKING, noun Cauking. In painting, the covering of the back side of a design with black lead, or red chalk, and tracing lines through on a waxed plate or wall or other matter, ...
CALKING-IRON
CALKING-IRON, noun Cauking-iron. An instrument like a chisel, used in calking ships.
CALL
CALL, verb transitive [Heb. To hold or restrain.] In a general sense, to drive; to strain or force out sound. Hence,1. To name; to denominate or give a name. And God called the ...
CALLAT
CALLAT, noun A trull, or a scold.CALLET, verb intransitive To rail; to scold.
CALLED
CALLED, participle passive Invited; summoned; addressed; named; appointed; invoked; assembled by order; recited.
CALLER
CALLER, noun One who calls.
CALLET
CALLET,CALLIGRAPHY, noun Fair or elegant writing, or penmanship.
CALLING
CALLING, noun1. A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtain an answer, as in legislative bodies.2. Vocation; profession;...
CALLIOPE
CALLIOPE, noun Calliopy. In Pagan mythology, the muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry.
CALLIPERS
CALLIPERS. [See Caliber.]
CALLIX
CALLIX, noun1. A cup2. The membrane which covers the papillae in the pelvis of the human kidney. But it seem to be erroneously used for calyx, which see.
CALLOSITY
CALLOSITY, adjective Hardness, or bony hardness; the hardness of the cicatrix of ulcers.
CALLOUS
CALLOUS, adjective1. Hard; hardened; indurated; as an ulcer or some part of the body.2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling.
CALLOUSLY
CALLOUSLY, adverb In a hardened or unfeeling manner.
CALLOUSNESS
CALLOUSNESS, noun Hardness, induration, applied to the body; insensibility, applied to the mind or heart.
CALLOW
CALLOW, adjective Destitute of feathers, naked; unfledged; as a young bird.
CALLUS
CALLUS, noun Any cutaneous, corneous, or bony hardness, but generally the new growth of osseous matter between the extremities of fractured bones, serving to unite them; also a ...
CALM
CALM, adjective1. Still; quiet; being at rest; as the air. Hence not stormy or tempestuous; as a calm day.2. Undisturbed; not agitated; as a calm sea.3. Undisturbed by passion; ...