CPage 18
- English Word Calembour Definition A pun.
- English Word Calendar Definition 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.
- English Word Calendar Definition 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.
- English Word Calendar Definition 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.
- English Word Calendar Definition To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
- English Word Calendared Definition of Calendar
- English Word Calendarial Definition Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
- English Word Calendaring Definition of Calendar
- English Word Calendary Definition Calendarial.
- English Word Calender Definition 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.
- English Word Calender Definition One who pursues the business of calendering.
- English Word Calender Definition To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.
- English Word Calender Definition One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
- English Word Calendered Definition of Calender
- English Word Calendering Definition of Calender
- English Word Calendographer Definition One who makes calendars.
- English Word Calendrer Definition A person who calenders cloth; a calender.
- English Word Calendric Definition Alt. of Calendrical
- English Word Calendrical Definition Of or pertaining to a calendar.
- English Word Calends Definition The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.
- English Word Calendula Definition 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.
- English Word Calendulin Definition A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
- English Word Calenture Definition 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.
- English Word Calenture Definition To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
- English Word Calescence Definition Growing warmth; increasing heat.
- English Word Calf Definition 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.
- English Word Calf Definition Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
- English Word Calf Definition An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
- English Word Calf Definition A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
- English Word Calf Definition A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.