CPage 20
- English Word Calamity Definition Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.
- English Word Calamity Definition A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.
- English Word Calamus Definition The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
- English Word Calamus Definition A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
- English Word Calamus Definition The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
- English Word Calando Definition Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.
- English Word Calash Definition A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage.
- English Word Calash Definition In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.
- English Word Calash Definition A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.
- English Word Calash Definition A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.
- English Word Calaverite Definition A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.
- English Word Calc-sinter Definition See under Calcite.
- English Word Calc-spar Definition Same as Calcite.
- English Word Calc-tufa Definition See under Calcite.
- English Word Calcaneal Definition Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.
- English Word Calcaneum Definition One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.
- English Word Calcar Definition A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
- English Word Calcar Definition A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
- English Word Calcar Definition A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
- English Word Calcar Definition A spur, or spurlike prominence.