Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 6
Calefacient (a.) 【醫】增溫的 Making warm; heating. [R.]
Calefacient (n.) 發熱藥 A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard.
Calefacient (a.) Producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body; "a mustard plaster is calefacient" [syn: calefacient, warming].
Calefaction (n.) 加熱；熱汙染 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.
Calefaction (n.) The property of being warming [syn: calefaction, incalescence].
Calefactive (a.) See Calefactory. [R.]
Calefactive (a.) 暖的 Serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: calefactory, calefactive].
Calefactor (n.) 溫暖器 A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
Calefactory (a.) 【醫】增溫的 Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
Calefactory (n.) (Eccl.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.
Calefactory (n.) 增溫物質 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.
Calefactory (a.) Serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: calefactory, calefactive].
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. -- Sir T. Browne.
Calembour (n.) [F.] A pun.
Calendar (n.) 日曆；曆書；曆法 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.) (Eccl.) 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.
Note: Shepherds of people had need know the calendars of tempests of state. -- Bacon.
Calendar clock, One that shows the days of the week and month.
Calendar month. See under Month.
French Republican calendar. See under Vend['e]miaire.
Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, Perpetual calendar. See under Gregorian, Julian, and Perpetual.
Calendared (imp. & p. p.) of Calendar.
Calendaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calendar.
Calendar (v. t.) 把……排進日程表；把……記入行事曆 To enter or write in a calendar; to register. -- Waterhouse.
Calendar (n.) A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year.
Calendar (n.) A list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc); "I have you on my calendar for next Monday".
Calendar (n.) A tabular array of the days (usually for one year).
Calendar (v.) Enter into a calendar.
Calendarial (a.) Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
Calendary (a.) Calendarial. [Obs.]
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.
My good friend the calender. -- Cawper.
Calendered (imp. & p. p.) of Calender.
Calendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calender.
Calender (v. i.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc. -- Ure.
Calender (n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
Calender (n.) A machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers.
Calender (v.) Press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets; "calender paper".
Calender, () crim. law. A list of prisoners, containing their names, the time when they were committed, and by whom, and the cause of their commitments.
Calender. () An almanac. Julius Caesar ordained that the Roman year should consist of 365 days, except every fourth year, which should contain 366, the additional day to be reckoned by counting the twenty-fourth day of February (which was the 6th of the calends of March) twice. See Bissextile is period of time exceeds the solar year by eleven minutes or thereabouts, which amounts to the error of a day in about 131 years. In 1582, the error amounted to eleven days or more, which was corrected by Pope Gregory. Out of this correction grew the distinction between Old and New Style. The Gregorian or New Style was introduced into England in 1752, the 2d day of September (0. S.) of that year being reckoned as the 14th day of September, (N. S.) glee Almanac.
Calendographer (n.) One who makes calendars. [R.]
Calendrer (n.) A person who calenders cloth; a calender.
Calendric (a.) Alt. of Calendrical.
Calendrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a calendar.
Calendric (a.) Relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement; "calendric systems"; "solstice is a time of calendric importance" [syn: calendric, calendrical].
Calends (n. pl.) The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. [Written also kalends.]
The Greek calends, A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
Calendula (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Calendula (n.) Any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes.
Calendulin (n.) (Chem.) A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
Calenture (n.) (Med.) 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. [Poetic]
Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. -- Wordsworth.
Calescence (n.) Growing warmth; increasing heat.
Calves (n. 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. [Colloq.]
Some silly, doting, brainless calf. -- Drayton.
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. -- Kane.
Calf (n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
Calf's-foot jelly, Jelly made from the feet of calves. The gelatinous matter of the feet is extracted by boiling, and is flavored with sugar, essences, etc.
Calfskin (n.) The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.
Calfskin (n.) Fine leather from the skin of a calf [syn: calf, calfskin].
Cali (n.) (Hindoo Myth.) The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu. [Written also Kali.] Caliber
Cali (n.) City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
Caliber (n.) Alt. of Calibre.
Calibre (n.) (Gunnery) 口徑；直徑；才幹；水準，程度 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.
The caliber of empty tubes. -- Reid.
A battery composed of three guns of small caliber. -- Prescott.
Note: The caliber of firearms is expressed in various ways. Cannon are often designated by the weight of a solid spherical shot that will fit the bore; as, a 12-pounder; pieces of ordnance that project shell or hollow shot are designated by the diameter of their bore; as, a 12 inch mortar or a 14 inch shell gun; small arms are designated by hundredths of an inch expressed decimally; as, a rifle of .44 inch caliber.
Calibre (n.) The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column.
Calibre (n.) Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind. -- Burke.
Caliber compasses. See Calipers.
Caliber rule, A gunner's calipers, an instrument having two scales arranged to determine a ball's weight from its diameter, and conversely.
A ship's caliber, The weight of her armament.
Caliber (n.) A degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber" [syn: quality, caliber, calibre].
Caliber (n.) Diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge, caliber, calibre].
Calibrate (v. i.) 測定……的口徑；校準；使……標準化 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.
Calibrate (v.) Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: calibrate, graduate, fine-tune].
Calibrate (v.) Mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units; "he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale".
Calibrate (v.) Measure the caliber of; "calibrate a gun".
Calibration (n.) 校準；口徑測定；查刻度；劃刻度；分門別類；分等級 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.
Calibration (n.) The act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument; "the thermometer needed calibration" [syn: calibration, standardization, standardisation].
Calice (n.) See Chalice.
Calicle (n.) (Zool.) One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp.
Calicle (n.) (Zool.) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian. [Written also calycle. See Calycle.]
Calicoes (n. 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. [Eng.]
The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. -- Beck (Draper's Dict. ).
Calico (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric.
Calico bass, () (Zool.) An edible, fresh-water fish ({Pomoxys sparaides) of the rivers and lake of the Western United States (esp. of the Misissippi valley.), allied to the sunfishes, and so called from its variegated colors; -- called also calicoback, grass bass, strawberry bass, barfish, and bitterhead.
Calico printing, () The art or process of impressing the figured patterns on calico.
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. [Colloq. U. S.]
Calico (a.) Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat".
Calico (a.) Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: {motley}, {calico}, {multicolor}, {multi-color}, {multicolour}, {multi-colour}, {multicolored}, {multi-colored}, {multicoloured}, {multi-coloured}, {painted}, {particolored}, {particoloured}, {piebald}, {pied}, {varicolored}, {varicoloured}].
Calico (n.) Coarse cloth with a bright print.
C+@
Calico
(Formerly "Calico"). An object-oriented language from Bell Laboratories which uniformly represents all data as pointers to self-described objects. C+@ provides multiple inheritance with delegation and with control over which methods come from which delegated object; and default methodologies. It has a simple syntax with emphasis on graphics. It was originally used for prototyping of telecommunication services.
The language is patented by AT&T and Unir Tech has the exclusive license from Bell Labs to distribute C+@. Unfortunately Unir is owned and operated by well-known anti-{IETF ranter, Jim Fleming, which may have had something to do with the language's rapid disappearence from the radar screen.
It runs under SunOS and compiles to Vcode.
E-mail: Jim Vandendorpe .
["A Dynamic C-Based Object-Oriented System for Unix", S. Engelstad et al, IEEE Software 8(3):73-85 (May 1991)].
["The C+@ Programming Language", J. Fleming, Dr Dobbs J, Oct 1993, pp.24-32].
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Calicoback (n.) (Zool.) The calico bass.
Calicoback (n.) (Zool.) An hemipterous insect ({Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug. Calicular
Calicular (a.) Alt. of Caliculate
Caliculate (a.) Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.
Calicular (a.) Relating to or resembling a calyculus [syn: calycular, calicular].
Calid (a.) Hot; burning; ardent. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Calidity (n.) Heat. [Obs.]
Caliduct (n.) A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.
Subterranean caliducts have been introduced. -- Evelyn. Calif
Calif (n.) Alt. of Califate.
Califate (n.) Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.
Caliph (n.) Successor or vicar; the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, used formerly by the sultans of Turkey. [Written also calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif.]
Compare: Calif
Calif (n.) The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth; "many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate the rest of the world" [syn: caliph, calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah].
California (n.) 加利福尼亞，加州 A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes [syn: {California}, {Golden State}, {CA}, {Calif.}].
California. () The name of one of the states of the United States. It was admitted into the Union, by an Act of Congress, passed the 9th September, 1850, entitled "An act for the admission of the state of California into the Union."
Sec. 1. This section enacts and declares that the state of California shall be one of the United States, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever.
Sec. 2. Enacts that the state of California shall be entitled to two representatives, until the representatives in Congress shall be apportioned according to the actual enumeration of the inhabitants, of the United States.
Sec. 3. By this section a condition is expressly imposed on the said state that the people thereof shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the public lands within its limits, nor pass any law, nor do any act, whereby the title of the United States to, and right to dispose of the same, shall be impaired or questioned. It also provides that they shall never lay any tax, or assessment of any description whatever, upon the public domain of the United States; and that in no case shall non-resident proprietors, who are citizens of the United States, be taxed higher than residents; that all navigable waters within the said state shall be common highways, forever free, as well to the inhabitants of said state, as to citizens of the United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor; with this proviso, viz., that nothing contained in the act shall be construed as recognizing or rejecting the propositions tendered by the people of California, as articles of compact in the ordinance adopted by the convention which formed the constitution of that state.
California. () The principal features of the constitution, of California, are similar to those of most, of the recently formed state constitutions. It establishes an elective judiciary, and: confers on the executive a qualified veto. It prohibits the creation of a state debt exceeding $300,000. It provides for the protection of the homestead from execution, and secures the property of married females separate from that of their husbands. It makes a liberal provision for the support of schools, prohibits the legislature from granting divorces, authorizing lotteries, and creating corporations, except by general laws, and from establishing any bank's of issue or circulation. It provides also that every stockholder of a corporation or joint-stock association, shall be individually and personally liable for his proportion of all its, debts or liabilities. There is also a clause prohibiting slavery, which, it is said, was inserted by the unanimous vote of the delegates.
California, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 5274
Housing Units (2000): 2092
Land area (2000): 11.029312 sq. miles (28.565785 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.199664 sq. miles (0.517127 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.228976 sq. miles (29.082912 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10768
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.065313 N, 79.897120 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15419
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
California, PA
California
California, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 86
Housing Units (2000): 27
Land area (2000): 0.240097 sq. miles (0.621849 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.357012 sq. miles (0.924656 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.597109 sq. miles (1.546505 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11872
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.919144 N, 84.263381 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 41007
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
California, KY
California
California, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
Population (2000): 9307
Housing Units (2000): 3735
Land area (2000): 12.920767 sq. miles (33.464632 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.874676 sq. miles (4.855388 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.795443 sq. miles (38.320020 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12150
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 38.305506 N, 76.494517 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20619
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
California, MD
California
California, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 4005
Housing Units (2000): 1766
Land area (2000): 2.994868 sq. miles (7.756673 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.011812 sq. miles (0.030592 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.006680 sq. miles (7.787265 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10468
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.630093 N, 92.568273 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65018
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
California, MO
California
Californian (a.) Of or pertaining to California.
Californian (n.) A native or inhabitant of California.
Californian (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of California or its inhabitants; "Californian beaches".
Californian (n.) A native or resident of California.
Caligation (n.) Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Caliginosity (n.) Darkness. [R.] -- G. Eliot.
Caliginous (a.) Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. [R.] -- Blount.
The caliginous regions of the air. -- Hallywell. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ness, n.
Caliginous (a.) Dark and misty and gloomy.
Caligo (n.) (Med.) 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. -- Thackeray.
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.
Caliper square, A draughtsman's or mechanic's square, having a graduated bar and adjustable jaw or jaws. -- Knight.
Vernier calipers. See Vernier.
Caliph (n.) Successor or vicar; the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, used formerly by the sultans of Turkey. [Written also calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif.]
Caliph (n.) The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth; "many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate the rest of the world" [syn: caliph, calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah].
Caliph (n.) [ C ] 哈裡發（穆斯林國家的統治者） A Muslim ruler.
Caliphate (n.) The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
Caliphate (n.) The era of Islam's ascendancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century; some Moslems still maintain that the Moslem world must always have a calif as head of the community; "their goal was to reestablish the Caliphate".
Caliphate (n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a caliph.
Caliphate (n.) The office of a caliph.
Caliphate (n.) [ C ] 回教國王的地位 [管區] An Islamic state, especially one ruled by a single religious and political leader.
Calippic (a.) Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.
Calippic period, A period of seventy-six years, proposed by Calippus, as an improvement on the Metonic cycle, since the 6940 days of the Metonic cycle exceeded 19 years by about a quarter of a day, and exceeded 235 lunations by something more.
Calisaya bark () A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.
Calistheneum (n.) [NL.] A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children.
Calisthenic (a.) Of or pertaining to calisthenics.
Calisthenic (a.) Of or relating to calisthenics.
Calisthenics (n.) The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.
Syn: calisthenics, calisthenic exercise, callisthenic exercise.
Calisthenics (n.) The practice of calisthenic exercises; "calisthenics is recommended for general good health" [syn: calisthenics, callisthenics].
Calisthenics (n.) Light exercises designed to promote general fitness; "several different calisthenics were illustrated in the video" [syn: calisthenics, callisthenics].
Caliver (n.) An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Calix (n.) [L.] 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. [Written also calque]
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 (n.) same as caulk [2], n.
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.
Calk (v. i.) same as caulk [2], v. t.
Compare: Caulk
Caulk (n.) See Calk.
Caulk (n.) A viscous semisolid material of varying composition used to fill in seams of objects which are exposed to water, such as wooden ships or bath tiles; -- called also calk and caulking. After applying in a semisolid form, the material hardens and dries to form a waterproof seal. It is used in the process of caulking. It is sometimes applied together with a rope-like cord to fill larger seams.
Calk (n.) A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping [syn: calk, calkin].
Calk (v.) Provide with calks; "calk horse shoes".
Calk (v.) Seal with caulking; "caulk the window" [syn: caulk, calk].
Calk (v.) Injure with a calk.
Calker (n.) One who calks.
Calker (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.