CALMER
CALMER, noun The person or thing that calms, or has the power to till, and make quiet; that which allays or pacifies.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CALMING
CALMING, participle present tense Stilling; appeasing.
CALMLY
CALMLY, adverb In a quiet manner; without disturbance, agitation, tumult, or violence; without passion; quietly.
CALMNESS
CALMNESS, noun1. Quietness; stillness; tranquillity; applied to the elements.2. Quietness; mildness; unruffled state; applied to the mind, passions or temper.
CALMY
CALMY, adjective Calm; quiet; peaceable.
CALOGERI
CALOYERS, or CALOGERInoun Monks of the Greek church, of three orders; archari, or novices; ordinary professed, or microchemi; and the more perfect, called megalochemi. They are ...
CALOMEL
CALOMEL, noun A preparation of mercury, much used in medicine. It is called the submuriate or protochloride of mercury, and is prepared in various ways, by sublimation or precip...
CALORIC
CALORIC, noun The principle or matter of heat, or the simple element of heat. caloric may be defined, the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion are ascribed. calor...
CALORIFIC
CALORIFIC, adjective That has the quality of producing heat; causing heat; heating.
CALORIMETER
CALORIMETER, noun An apparatus for measuring relative quantities of heat, or the specific caloric of bodies; or an instrument for measuring the heat given out by a body in cooli...
CALORIMOTOR
CALORIMOTOR, noun A galvanic instrument, in which the calorific influence or effects are attended by scarcely any electrical power.
CALOTE
CALOTE, noun1. A cap or coif, of hair, satin or other stuff, worn in popish countries, as an ecclesiastical ornament.2. In architecture, a round cavity or depression, in form of...
CALOTTE
CALOTTE,CALOYERS, or CALOGERI, noun Monks of the Greek church, of three orders; archari, or novices; ordinary professed, or microchemi; and the more perfect, called megalochemi....
CALP
CALP, noun A subspecies of carbonate of lime, of a bluish black, gray or grayish blue, but its streak is white, called also argillo-fer-ruginous limestone. It is intermediate be...
CALTROP
CALTROP, noun1. A kind of thistle, the Latin tribulus, with a roundish prickly pericarp; on one side, gibbous, often armed with three or four daggers; on the other side, angular...
CALUMET
CALUMET, noun Among the aboriginals of America, a pipe, used for smoking tobacco, whose bowl is usually of soft red marble, and the tube a long reed, ornamented with feathers. T...
CALUMNIATE
CALUMNIATE, verb transitive [See Calumny.] To accuse or charge one falsely, and knowingly, with some crime, offense, or something, disreputable; to slander.CALUMNIATE, verb intr...
CALUMNIATED
CALUMNIATED, participle passive Slandered; falsely and maliciously accused of what is criminal, immoral, or disgraceful.
CALUMNIATING
CALUMNIATING, participle present tense Slandering.
CALUMNIATION
CALUMNIATION, noun False accusation of a crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.
CALUMNIATOR
CALUMNIATOR, noun One who slanders; one who falsely and knowingly accuses another of a crime or offense, or maliciously propagates false accusations or reports.
CALUMNIATORY
CALUMNIATORY, adjective Slanderous.
CALUMNIOUS
CALUMNIOUS, adjective Slanderous; bearing or implying calumny; injurious to reputation.
CALUMNIOUSLY
CALUMNIOUSLY, noun Slanderously.
CALUMNIOUSNESS
CALUMNIOUSNESS, noun Slanderousness.
CALUMNY
CALUMNY, noun Slander; false accusation of a crime or offense, knowingly or maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; false representation of facts reproachful to ...
CALVARY
CALVARY, noun1. A place of skulls; particularly, the place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill west of Jerusalem. In catholic countries, a kind of chapel raised on a hil...