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- English Word Calmucks Definition A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks.
- English Word Calmy Definition Tranquil; peaceful; calm.
- English Word Calomel Definition Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
- English Word Calorescence Definition The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.
- English Word Caloric Definition The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
- English Word Caloric Definition Of or pertaining to caloric.
- English Word Caloricity Definition A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
- English Word Caloriduct Definition A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
- English Word Calorie Definition The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0¡ to 1¡. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound.
- English Word Calorifacient Definition See Calorificient.
- English Word Calorifere Definition An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.
- English Word Calorifiant Definition See Calorificient.
- English Word Calorific Definition Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.
- English Word Calorification Definition Production of heat, esp. animal heat.
- English Word Calorificient Definition Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.
- English Word Calorimeter Definition An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.
- English Word Calorimeter Definition An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.
- English Word Calorimetric Definition Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter.
- English Word Calorimetry Definition Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.
- English Word Calorimotor Definition A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.
- English Word Calotte Definition Alt. of Callot
- English Word Calotype Definition A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.
- English Word Caloyer Definition A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos.
- English Word Calque Definition See 2d Calk, v. t.
- English Word Caltrap Definition A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.
- English Word Caltrap Definition An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet.
- English Word Caltrop Definition Alt. of Caltrap
- English Word Calumba Definition The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic.
- English Word Calumbin Definition A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.
- English Word Calumet Definition A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.