CPage 15
- English Word Calceolate Definition Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.
- English Word Calces Definition See Calx.
- English Word Calces Definition of Calx
- English Word Calcic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.
- English Word Calciden Definition of Calcine
- English Word Calciferous Definition Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.
- English Word Calcific Definition Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles.
- English Word Calcification Definition The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
- English Word Calcified Definition Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.
- English Word Calcified Definition of Calcify
- English Word Calciform Definition In the form of chalk or lime.
- English Word Calcify Definition To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
- English Word Calcify Definition To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.
- English Word Calcifying Definition of Calcify
- English Word Calcigenous Definition Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.
- English Word Calcigerous Definition Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.
- English Word Calcimine Definition A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water.
- English Word Calcimine Definition To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls.
- English Word Calcimined Definition of Calcimine
- English Word Calciminer Definition One who calcimines.
- English Word Calcimining Definition of Calcimine
- English Word Calcinable Definition That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.
- English Word Calcinate Definition To calcine.
- English Word Calcination Definition The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.
- English Word Calcination Definition The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
- English Word Calcinatory Definition A vessel used in calcination.
- English Word Calcine Definition To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.
- English Word Calcine Definition To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
- English Word Calcine Definition To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.
- English Word Calciner Definition One who, or that which, calcines.