| C: | C is the third letter of the English alphabet It is from the Latin letter C which in old Latin represented the sounds of k and g in go its original value being the latter In AngloSaxon words or Old English before the Norman Conquest it always has the sound of k The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek ce and was derived probably through the French Etymologically C is related to g h k q s and other sibilant sounds Examples of these relations are in L acutus E acute ague E acrid eager vinegar L cornu E horn E cat kitten E coy quiet L circare OF cerchier E search |
| Ca: | the chemical symbol for calcium the fifth most abundant element in the earths crust |
| Caaba: | The small and nearly cubical stone building toward which all Mohammedans must pray |
| Caas: | Case |
| Caatinga: | A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil |
| Cab: | A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels usually a public vehicle |
| Cab: | A Hebrew dry measure containing a little over two 237 pints |
| Cabal: | Tradition occult doctrine See Cabala |
| Cabal: | To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue to intrigue to plot |
| Cabala: | A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain medival Christians which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence It assumes that every letter word number and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means |
| Cabalist: | One versed in the cabala or the mysteries of Jewish traditions |
| Cabalistic: | Of or pertaining to the cabala containing or conveying an occult meaning mystic |
| Cabalistically: | In a cabalistic manner |
| Cabalize: | To use cabalistic language |
| Caballer: | One who cabals |
| Caballeria: | An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knights fee hence in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish a land measure of varying size In Cuba it is about 33 acres in Puerto Rico about 194 acres in the Southwestern United States about 108 acres |
| caballero: | A knight or cavalier hence a gentleman |
| caballine: | Of or pertaining to a horse |
| Caballo: | A horse |
| Cabaret: | A tavern a house where liquors are retailed |
| Cabas: | A flat basket or frail for figs etc hence a ladys flat workbasket reticule or hand bag often written caba |
| Cabassou: | A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus Xenurus unicinctus and Xenurus hispidus the tatouay |
| Cabbage: | An esculent vegetable of many varieties derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves The cauliflower Brussels sprouts etc are sometimes classed as cabbages |
| Cabbage: | To form a head like that the cabbage as to make lettuce cabbage |
| Cabbage: | To purloin or embezzle as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment to pilfer |
| Cabbage: | Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments |
| cabbagebutterfly: | a white butterfly Pieris rap of both Europe and America and the allied Pieris oleracea a native American species which in the larval state devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip See also Cabbage worm below |
| cabbageworm: | the larva of several species of moths and butterflies which attacks cabbages The most common is the toxic green larva of a white butterfly the cabbage butterfly Pieris rap The cabbage cutworms which eat off the stalks of young plants during the night are the larv of several species of moths of the genus Agrotis See Cutworm larva of a cabbage butterfly |
| Cabbler: | One who works at cabbling |
| Cabbling: | The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron |
| Cabea: | The finest kind of silk received from India |
| Caber: | A pole or beam esp one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength |
| Cabezon: | A California fish Hemilepidotus spinosus allied to the sculpin |
| Cabiai: | The capybara See Capybara |
| Cabin: | A cottage or small house a hut |
| Cabin: | To live in or as in a cabin to lodge |
| Cabin: | To confine in or as in a cabin |
| Cabinet: | A hut a cottage a small house |
| Cabinet: | Suitable for a cabinet small |
| Cabinet: | To inclose |
| Cabinetmaker: | One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture as tables bedsteads bureaus etc |
| Cabinetmaking: | The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture |
| Cabinetwork: | The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship also such furniture |
| Cabirean: | One of the Cabiri |
| Cabiri: | Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece also called sons of Hephstus or Vulcan as being masters of the art of working metals |
| Cabirian: | Same as Cabiric |
| Cabiric: | Of or pertaining to the Cabiri or to their mystical worship |
| Cable: | A large strong rope or chain of considerable length used to retain a vessel at anchor and for other purposes It is made of hemp of steel wire or of iron links |
| Cable: | To fasten with a cable |
| Cable: | To telegraph by a submarine cable |
| Cabled: | Fastened with or attached to a cable or rope |
| Cablegram: | A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable |
| Cablelaid: | Composed of three threestranded ropes or hawsers twisted together to form a cable |
| Cablet: | A little cable less than ten inches in circumference |
| Cabling: | The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds or rounded moldings which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft |
| Cabman: | The driver of a cab |
| Cabob: | A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer so called in Turkey and Persia |
| Cabob: | To roast as a cabob |
| Caboched: | Showing the full face but nothing of the neck said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing |
| cabochon: | A stone of convex form highly polished but not faceted also the style of cutting itself Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon |
| cabochon: | Of pertaining to containing or in the style of a cabochon |
| Cabombaceae: | A subfamily of plants in some classifications considered as an independent family of water lilies it comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia |
| caboodle: | The whole collection the entire quantity or number usually in the phrase the whole caboodle or the whole kit and caboodle |
| Caboose: | A house on deck where the cooking is done commonly called the galley |
| Cabotage: | Navigation along the coast the details of coast pilotage |
| Cabre: | The pronghorn antelope |
| Cabrerite: | An applegreen mineral a hydrous arseniate of nickel cobalt and magnesia so named from the Sierra Cabrera Spain |
| Cabrilla: | A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus and related genera inhabiting the Meditarranean the coast of California etc In California some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon |
| Cabriole: | A curvet a leap See Capriole |
| Cabriolet: | A onehorse carriage with two seats and a calash top |
| Cabrit: | Same as Cabre |
| Caburn: | A small line made of spun yarn to bind or worm cables seize tackles etc |
| caca: | Feces excrement used in talking with very young children |
| caca: | to have a bowel movement |
| Cacmia: | A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood |
| cacaine: | The essential principle of cacao now called theobromine |
| Cacajeeo: | A South American shorttailed monkey Pithecia melanocephala syn Brachyurus melanocephala |
| cacao: | A small evergreen tree Theobroma Cacao of South America and the West Indies Its fruit contains an edible pulp inclosing seeds about the size of an almond from which cocoa chocolate and broma are prepared |
| Cachmia: | A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood |
| cachalot: | The sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus It has in the top of its head a large cavity containing an oily fluid which after death concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti See Sperm whale |
| cache: | A hole in the ground or other hiding place for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry |
| cache: | To store in a cache1 |
| Cachectic: | Having or pertaining to cachexia as cachectic remedies cachectical blood |
| Cachepot: | An ornamental casing for a flowerpot of porcelain metal paper etc |
| Cachet: | A seal as of a letter |
| Cachexia: | A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood esp when caused by a specific morbid process as cancer or tubercle |
| Cachinnation: | Loud or immoderate laughter often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections |
| Cachinnatory: | Consisting of or accompanied by immoderate laughter |
| Cachiri: | A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc and resembling perry |
| Cacholong: | An opaque or milkwhite chalcedony a variety of quartz also a similar variety of opal |
| Cachou: | A silvered aromatic pill used to correct the odor of the breath |
| Cachucha: | An Andalusian dance in threefour time resembling the bolero |
| Cachunde: | A pastil or troche composed of various aromatic and other ingredients highly celebrated in India as an antidote and as a stomachic and antispasmodic |
| Cacique: | See Cazique |
| Cack: | To ease the body by stool to go to stool |
| Cackerel: | The mendole a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients See Mendole |
| Cackle: | To make a sharp broken noise or cry as a hen or goose does |
| Cackle: | The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg |
| Cackler: | A fowl that cackles |
| Cackling: | The broken noise of a goose or a hen |
| Cacochymia: | A vitiated state of the humors or fluids of the body esp of the blood |
| Cacochymic: | Having the fluids of the body vitiated especially the blood |
| Cacodemon: | An evil spirit a devil or demon |
| Cacodoxical: | Heretical |
| Cacodoxy: | Erroneous doctrine heresy heterodoxy |
| Cacodyl: | Alkarsin a colorless poisonous arsenical liquid As2CH34 spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines |
| Cacodylic: | Of pertaining to or derived from cacodyl |
| Cacothes: | A bad custom or habit an insatiable desire as caco89thes scribendi bdThe itch for writingb8 |
| Cacogastric: | Troubled with bad digestion |
| cacogenics: | the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced |
| Cacographic: | Pertaining to or characterized by cacography badly written or spelled |
| Cacography: | Incorrect or bad writing or spelling |
| Cacolet: | A chair litter or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army |
| Cacology: | Bad speaking bad choice or use of words |
| Cacomixle: | A North American carnivore Bassaris astuta about the size of a cat related to the raccoons It inhabits Mexico Texas and California |
| Cacoon: | One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine Entada scandens used for making purses scent bottles etc |
| Cacophonic: | Harshsounding |
| Cacophony: | An uncouth or disagreable sound of words owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables |
| Cacostomia: | Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth |
| Cacotechny: | A corruption or corrupt state of art |
| Cacoxene: | A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore |
| Cactaceous: | Belonging to or like the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example |
| Cactus: | Any plant of the order Cactac as the prickly pear and the nightblooming cereus See Cereus They usually have leafless stems and branches often beset with clustered thorns and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America |
| Cacuminal: | Pertaining to the top of the palate cerebral applied to certain consonants as cacuminal or cerebral letters |
| Cacuminate: | To make sharp or pointed |
| Cad: | A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it and to receive fares an idle hangeron about innyards |
| cadaster: | same as cadastre |
| Cadastral: | Of or pertaining to landed property |
| Cadastre: | An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land |
| Cadaver: | A dead human body a corpse |
| Cadaveric: | Of pertaining to or resembling a corpse or the changes produced by death cadaverous as cadaveric rigidity |
| Cadaverine: | A sirupy nontoxic ptomaine H2NCH25NH2 chemically pentamethylene diamine formed in putrefaction of flesh etc |
| Cadaverous: | Having the appearance or color of a dead human body pale ghastly as a cadaverous look |
| Cadbait: | See Caddice |
| Caddice: | The larva of a caddice fly These larv generally live in cylindrical cases open at each end and covered externally with pieces of broken shells gravel bits of wood etc They are a favorite bait with anglers Called also caddice worm or caddis worm |
| Caddicefly: | a small mothlike species of trichopterous insect whose larva is the caddice it has two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae |
| Caddie: | A cadet |
| Caddis: | A kind of worsted lace or ribbon |
| caddisfly: | same as caddice fly |
| Caddish: | Like a cad lowbred and presuming |
| Caddow: | A jackdaw |
| Caddy: | A small box can or chest to keep tea in also called tea caddy |
| Cade: | Bred by hand domesticated petted |
| Cade: | To bring up or nourish by hand or with tenderness to coddle to tame |
| Cade: | A barrel or cask as of fish |
| Cade: | A species of juniper Juniperus Oxycedrus of Mediterranean countries |
| Cadence: | To regulate by musical measure |
| Cadency: | Descent of related families distinction between the members of a family according to their ages |
| Cadene: | A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant |
| Cadent: | Falling |
| Cadenza: | A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece commonly just before the final cadence |
| Cader: | See Cadre |
| Cadetship: | The position rank or commission of a cadet as to get a cadetship |
| Cadew: | A caddice See Caddice |
| Cadge: | A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale |
| Cadger: | One who carries hawks on a cadge |
| Cadgy: | Cheerful or mirthful as after good eating or drinking also wanton |
| Cadi: | An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans usually the judge of a town or village |
| Cadie: | A Scotch errand boy porter or messenger |
| Cadilesker: | A chief judge in the Turkish empire so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers who are now tried only by their own officers |
| Cadillac: | A large pear shaped like a flattened top used chiefly for cooking |
| Cadis: | A kind of coarse serge |
| Cadmean: | Of or pertaining to Cadmus a fabulous prince of Thebes who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet Cadmean letters |
| Cadmia: | An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed Formerly applied to the mineral calamine |
| Cadmian: | See Cadmean |
| Cadmic: | Pertaining to derived from or containing cadmium as cadmic sulphide |
| Cadmium: | A comparatively rare element related to zinc and occurring in some zinc ores It is a white metal both ductile and malleable Symbol Cd Atomic weight 1118 It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817 who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore |
| Cadrans: | An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing |
| Cadre: | The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed the officers of a regiment forming the staff |
| Caducary: | Relating to escheat forfeiture or confiscation |
| Caducean: | Of or belonging to Mercurys caduceus or wand |
| Caduceus: | The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury the messenger of the gods It was originally said to be a heralds staff of olive wood but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it and two wings at the top |
| Caducibranchiate: | With temporary gills applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life |
| Caducity: | Tendency to fall the feebleness of old age senility |
| Caducous: | Dropping off or disappearing early as the calyx of a poppy or the gills of a tadpole |
| Caduke: | Perishable frail transitory |
| Cady: | See Cadie |
| Cca: | See Ccum |
| Ccias: | A wind from the northeast |
| Ccilian: | A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Ccili or Ophimorpha See Ophiomorpha |
| caecum: | A cavity open at one end as the blind end of a canal or duct |
| Clatura: | Art of producing metal decorative work other than statuary as reliefs intaglios engraving chasing etc |
| Cnozoic: | See Cenozoic |
| Caenstone: | A creamcolored limestone for building found near Caen France |
| Csar: | A Roman emperor as being the successor of Augustus Csar Hence a kaiser or emperor of Germany or any emperor or powerful ruler See Kaiser Kesar |
| Csarean: | Of or pertaining to Csar or the Csars imperial |
| caesarean: | same as caesarean section |
| caesareansection: | the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus so called because Julius Csar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation called also caesarean |
| Csarism: | A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person to whom as Csar or emperor it has been committed by the popular will imperialism also advocacy or support of such a system of government |
| Caesaropapism: | the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters |
| Csious: | Of the color of lavender pale blue with a slight mixture of gray |
| caesium: | A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis and is the most strongly basic and electropositive substance known Symbol Cs Atomic number 55 Atomic weight 1326 |
| Cspitose: | Same as Cespitose |
| caesura: | A metrical break in a verse occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse a sense pause in the middle of a foot Also a long syllable on which the csural accent rests or which is used as a foot |
| Csural: | Of or pertaining to a csura |
| Caf: | A coffeehouse a restaurant especially a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold also a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served |
| caflatte: | A type of espresso coffee topped with foamy steamed milk and usually served in a tall glass or mug also called latte |
| Cafenet: | A humble inn or house of rest for travelers where coffee is sold |
| Cafeteria: | A restaurant or caf at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter typically paying a cashier at the end of the counter and taking the food to tables to eat |
| Cafetorium: | a large room within a building especially a school which functions as both a cafeteria and an auditorium |
| caff: | a cafe |
| Caffeic: | Pertaining to or obtained from coffee |
| caffein: | A white bitter crystallizable substance found in coffee and tea It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves and with guaranine from guarana It is responsible for most of the stimulating effect of coffee or tea |
| Caffetannic: | Pertaining to or derived from the tannin of coffee |
| Caffila: | See Cafila |
| Caffre: | See Kaffir |
| Cafila: | A caravan of travelers a military supply train or government caravan a string of pack horses |
| Caftan: | A garment worn throughout the Levant consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands It is generally fastened by a belt or sash |
| Caftan: | To clothe with a caftan |
| Cag: | See Keg |
| Cage: | To confine in or as in a cage to shut up or confine |
| Caged: | Confined in or as in a cage like a cage or prison |
| Cageling: | A bird confined in a cage esp a young bird |
| Cagit: | A kind of parrot of a beautiful green color found in the Philippine Islands |
| Cagmag: | A tough old goose hence coarse bad food of any kind |
| Cagot: | One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees who until 1793 were political and social outcasts Christian Pariahs They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths |
| Cahenslyism: | A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P P Cahensly a member of the German parliament to divide the foreignborn population of the United States for ecclesiastical purposes according to European nationalities and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation This plan was successfully opposed by the American party in the Church |
| Cahier: | A number of sheets of paper put loosely together esp one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers |
| Cahincaroot: | The root of an American shrub Chiococca racemosa found as far north as Florida Keys from which cahincic acid is obtained also the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga a celebrated antidote for snake poison |
| Cahincic: | Pertaining to or derived from cahinca the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca perhaps Chiococca racemosa as cahincic acid |
| Cahoot: | Partnership league as to go in cahoot or in cahoots with a person Usually used in the plural and in modern usage often used to imply that the joint effort is unethical shady questionable or illegal as a shill in cahoots with a pickpocket to serve as a distraction |
| Caimacam: | The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey |
| Caiman: | See Cayman |
| Cainozoic: | See Cenozic |
| Cabque: | A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus also a Levantine vessel of larger size |
| aira: | The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution |
| Caird: | A traveling tinker also a tramp or sturdy beggar |
| Cairn: | A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles apparently as a sepulchral monument |
| cairned: | piled up like a cairn |
| Cairo: | The capital city of Egypt It is the largest city in Africa Population 2000 7010000 |
| cairngorm: | A smoky yellow or brown variety of rock crystal or crystallized quartz found especially in the mountain of Cairngorm in Scotland |
| Caisson: | A chest to hold ammunition |
| Caissondisease: | A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure as in caissons diving bells etc It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms It is caused by the release of bubbles of gas usually nitrogen from bodily fluids into the blood and tissues when a person having been in an environment with high air pressure moves to a lower pressure environment too rapidly for the excess dissolved gases to be released through normal breathing It may be fatal but can be reversed or alleviated by returning the affected person to a high air pressure and then gradually decreasing the pressure to allow the gases to be released from the body fluids It is a danger well known to divers It is also called the bends and decompression sickness It can be prevented in divers by a slow return to normal pressure or by using a breathing mixture of oxygen combined with a gas having low solubility in water such as helium |
| Caitiff: | Captive wretched unfortunate |
| Caitiff: | A captive a prisoner |
| Cajanus: | a genus of erect densely branched shrubby perennials of Old World tropics naturalized in other warm regions |
| Cajeput: | See Cajuput |
| Cajole: | To deceive with flattery or fair words to wheedle |
| Cajolement: | The act of cajoling the state of being cajoled cajolery |
| Cajoler: | A flatterer a wheedler |
| Cajolery: | A wheedling to delude words used in cajoling flattery |
| Cajun: | In Louisiana a person reputed to be Acadian French descent Also used attributively as in Cajun cooking |
| Cajuput: | A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree Melaleuca cajuputi etc It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste |
| Cajuputene: | A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput |
| Cake: | To form into a cake or mass |
| Cake: | To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass as dough in an oven to coagulate |
| Cake: | To cackle as a goose |
| Cakingcoal: | See Coal |
| Cal: | Wolfram an ore of tungsten |
| calaba: | a West Indian tree Calophyllum calaba having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice |
| Calabar: | A district on the west coast of Africa |
| Calabarine: | An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean |
| Calabash: | The common gourd plant or fruit |
| Calaboose: | A prison a jail |
| Calabozo: | A jail See Calaboose |
| calabura: | a fastgrowing tropical American evergreen Muntingia calabura having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves |
| Calade: | A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop to give suppleness to his haunches |
| caladenia: | any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia |
| Caladium: | A genus of aroideous plants of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves which are often curiously blotched with white and red and others in Polynesia for food |
| Calaite: | A mineral See Turquoise |
| Calamanco: | A glossy woolen stuff plain striped or checked |
| Calamanderwood: | A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon of a hazelbrown color with black stripes very hard in texture It is a species of ebony and is obtained from the Diospyros qusita Called also Coromandel wood |
| Calamar: | A cephalopod belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera There are many species They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube when pursued or alarmed in order to confuse their enemies Their shell is a thin horny plate within the flesh of the back shaped very much like a quill pen In America they are called squids See Squid |
| Calambac: | A fragrant wood agalloch |
| Calambour: | A species of agalloch or aloes wood of a dusky or mottled color of a light friable texture and less fragrant than calambac used by cabinetmakers |
| Calamiferous: | Producing reeds reedy |
| Calamine: | A mineral the hydrous silicate of zinc |
| Calamint: | A genus of perennial plants Calamintha of the Mint family esp the Calamintha Nepeta and Calamintha Acinos which are called also basil thyme |
| Calamist: | One who plays upon a reed or pipe |
| Calamistrate: | To curl or friz as the hair |
| Calamistration: | The act or process of curling the hair |
| Calamistrum: | A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders Ciniflonid used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs |
| Calamite: | A fossil plant of the coal formation having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family but sometimes attaining the height of trees and having the stem more or less woody within See Acrogen and Asterophyllite |
| Calamity: | Any great misfortune or cause of misery generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil either to communities or individuals |
| Calamus: | The indian cane a plant of the Palm family It furnishes the common rattan See Rattan and Dragons blood |
| Calando: | Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness |
| Calandrinia: | a large genus of lowgrowing herbs widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers |
| calanthe: | any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rosecolored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise |
| Calash: | 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 closed carriage |
| Calaverasskull: | A human skull reported by Prof J D Whitney as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit lying below a bed of black lava in Calaveras County California It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found If it did it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type |
| Calaverite: | A bronzeyellow massive mineral with metallic luster a telluride of gold first found in Calaveras County California |
| Calcaneal: | Pertaining to the calcaneum as calcaneal arteries |
| Calcaneum: | One of the bones of the tarsus which in man forms the great bone of the heel called also fibulare |
| Calcar: | A kind of oven or reverberatory furnace used for the calcination of sand and potash and converting them into frit |
| Calcar: | A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla |
| Calcareoargillaceous: | consisting of or containing calcareous and argillaceous earths |
| Calcareobituminous: | Consisting of or containing lime and bitumen |
| Calcareosiliceous: | Consisting of or containing calcareous and siliceous earths |
| Calcareous: | Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate consisting of or containing calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime |
| Calcareousness: | Quality of being calcareous |
| Calcariferous: | Limeyielding calciferous |
| Calcarine: | Pertaining to or situated near the calcar of the brain |
| Calcavella: | A sweet wine from Portugal so called from the district of Carcavelhos |
| Calceated: | Fitted with or wearing shoes |
| Calced: | Wearing shoes calceated in distintion from discalced or barefooted as the calced Carmelites |
| Calcedon: | A foul vein like chalcedony in some precious stones |
| Calcedonic: | See Chalcedonic |
| Calceiform: | Shaped like a slipper as one petal of the ladysslipper calceolate |
| calceolaria: | A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants brought from South America slipperwort It has a yellow or purple flower often spotted or striped the shape of which suggests its name |
| Calceolate: | Slipperahaped See Calceiform |
| Calces: | See Calx |
| Calcic: | Pertaining to derived from or containing calcium or lime |
| calciferol: | one of the forms of vitamin D a fatsoluble vitamin that prevents rickets It is an unsaturated alcohol C28H43OH found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils It is used as a dietary supplement in milk |
| Calciferous: | Bearing producing or containing calcite or carbonate of lime |
| Calcific: | Calciferous Specifically Zo94l of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles |
| Calcification: | 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 |
| Calcified: | Consisting of or containing calcareous matter or lime salts calcareous |
| Calciform: | In the form of chalk or lime |
| Calcify: | To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime |
| Calcify: | To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition in which lime is a principal ingredient as in the formation of teeth |
| Calcigenous: | Tending to form or to become a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt as magnesium calcium etc |
| Calcigerous: | Holding lime or other earthy salts as the calcigerous cells of the teeth |
| Calcimine: | 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 |
| Calcimine: | To wash or cover with calcimine as to calcimine walls |
| Calciminer: | One who calcimines |
| Calcinable: | That may be calcined as a calcinable fossil |
| Calcinate: | To calcine |
| Calcinatory: | A vessel used in calcination |
| Calcine: | To be converted into a powder or friable substance or into a calx by the action of heat |
| Calciner: | One who or that which calcines |
| Calcispongi: | An order of marine sponges containing calcareous spicules See Porifera |
| Calcite: | Calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime It is rhombohedral in its crystallization and thus distinguished from aragonite It includes common limestone chalk and marble Called also calcspar and calcareous spar |
| Calcitrant: | Kicking Hence Stubborn refractory |
| Calcitrate: | To kick |
| Calcitration: | Act of kicking |
| Calcium: | An elementary substance a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime It is of a pale yellow color tenacious and malleable It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements Atomic weight 40 Symbol Ca |
| Calcivorous: | Eroding or eating into limestone |
| Calcographer: | One who practices calcography |
| Calcographic: | Relating to or in the style of calcography |
| Calcography: | The art of drawing with chalk |
| Calcsinter: | See under Calcite |
| Calcspar: | Same as Calcite |
| Calctufa: | See under Calcite |
| Calculable: | That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation |
| Calculary: | Of or pertaining to calculi |
| Calculary: | A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits |
| Calculate: | To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic to reckon up to estimate to compute |
| Calculate: | To make a calculation to forecast consequences to estimate to compute |
| Calculated: | Worked out by calculation as calculated tables for computing interest ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation as the calculated place of a planet the calculated velocity of a cannon ball |
| Calculating: | Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations performing or able to perform mathematical calculations |
| Calculating: | The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results |
| Calculation: | The act or process or the result of calculating computation reckoning estimate |
| Calculative: | Of or pertaining to calculation involving calculation |
| Calculator: | One who computes or reckons one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects |
| Calculatory: | Belonging to calculation |
| Calcule: | Reckoning computation |
| Calcule: | To calculate |
| Calculi: | See Calculus |
| Calculous: | Of the nature of a calculus like stone gritty as a calculous concretion |
| Calculus: | Any solid concretion formed in any part of the body but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs and in the passages connected with them as biliary calculi urinary calculi etc |
| Calcuttan: | of or pertaining to Calcutta |
| Caldron: | A large kettle or boiler of copper brass or iron Written also cauldron |
| Calache: | See Calash |
| Caledonia: | The ancient Latin name of Scotland still used in poetry |
| Caledonian: | Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland Scottish Scotch |
| Caledonite: | A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland |
| Calefacient: | Making warm heating |
| Calefacient: | A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied as mustard |
| Calefaction: | 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 |
| Calefactive: | See Calefactory |
| Calefactor: | A heater one who or that which makes hot as a stove etc |
| Calefactory: | Making hot producing or communicating heat |
| Calefactory: | An apartment in a monastery warmed and used as a sitting room |
| Calefy: | To make warm or hot |
| Calefy: | To grow hot or warm |
| Calembour: | A pun |
| Calendar: | 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: | To enter or write in a calendar to register |
| Calendarial: | Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar |
| Calendary: | Calendarial |
| Calender: | 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: | To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy or wavy as woolen and silk stuffs linens paper etc |
| Calender: | One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes |
| Calendographer: | One who makes calendars |
| Calendrer: | A person who calenders cloth a calender |
| Calendric: | Of or pertaining to a calendar |
| Calends: | The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar |
| Calendula: | 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 |
| Calendulin: | A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula and analogous to bassorin |
| Calenture: | 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: | To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture |
| Calescence: | Growing warmth increasing heat |
| Calf: | 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 |
| Calfskin: | The hide or skin of a calf or leather made of the skin |
| Cali: | The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu |
| Calibrate: | 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 |
| Calibration: | 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 |
| Calice: | See Chalice |
| caliche: | a deposit of sand or clay on the surface containing crystallized salts such as sodium chloride or sodium nitrate used especially of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru |
| calichetopped: | covered with caliche2 a hard calciumcarbonate encrusted soil |
| Calicle: | One of the small cuplike cavities often with elevated borders covering the surface of most corals Each is formed by a polyp b One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids See Campanularian |
| Calico: | Plain white cloth made from cotton but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use as super calicoes shirting calicoes unbleached calicoes etc |
| Calico: | 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 |
| Calicoback: | The calico bass |
| Calicular: | Relating to or resembling a cup also improperly used for calycular calyculate |
| Calid: | Hot burning ardent |
| Calidity: | Heat |
| Caliduct: | A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam |
| Calif: | Same as Caliph Caliphate etc |
| Californiacondor: | a large vulture Gymnogyps californianus also called California vulture |
| Californiajack: | A game at cards a modification of sevenup or all fours |
| Californian: | Of or pertaining to California |
| Caligation: | Dimness cloudiness |
| Caliginosity: | Darkness |
| Caliginous: | Affected with darkness or dimness dark obscure |
| Caligo: | Dimness or obscurity of sight dependent upon a speck on the cornea also the speck itself |
| Caligraphic: | See Calligraphic |
| Caligraphy: | See Caligraphy |
| Calin: | An alloy of lead and tin of which the Chinese make tea canisters |
| Calipash: | 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: | 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 |
| Calipers: | 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 |
| Caliph: | 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 |
| Caliphate: | The office dignity or government of a caliph or of the caliphs |
| Calippic: | Of or pertaining to Calippus an Athenian astronomer |
| Calisayabark: | A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya and other closely related species |
| Calistheneum: | A gymnasium esp one for light physical exercise by women and children |
| Calisthenic: | Of or pertaining to calisthenics |
| Calisthenics: | The science art or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs to promote strength gracefulness and general fitness light gymnastics |
| Caliver: | An early form of hand gun a variety of the arquebus originally a gun having a regular size of bore |
| Calix: | A cup See Calyx |
| Calk: | 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: | 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 |
| Calk: | A sharppointed 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: | To furnish with calks to prevent slipping on ice as to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox |
| Calker: | One who calks |
| Calkin: | A calk on a shoe See Calk n 1 |
| Calking: | The act or process of making seems tight as in ships or of furnishing with calks as a shoe or copying as a drawing |
| Call: | To command or request to come or be present to summon as to call a servant |
| Call: | To speak in loud voice to cry out to address by name sometimes with to |
| Call: | The act of calling usually with the voice but often otherwise as by signs the sound of some instrument or by writing a summons an entreaty an invitation as a call for help the bugles call |
| Calla: | A genus of plants of the order Arace |
| callable: | subject to a demand for payment or redemption before the due date of financial instruments as callable bonds |
| Callat: | Same as Callet |
| callathump: | a noisy boisterous parade |
| callback: | a return call especially a telephone call |
| callboard: | a bulletin board backstage in a theater |
| Calle: | A kind of head covering a caul |
| Caller: | One who calls |
| Caller: | Cool refreshing fresh as a caller day the caller air |
| Callet: | A trull or prostitute a scold or gossip |
| Callet: | To rail or scold |
| Callid: | Characterized by cunning or shrewdness crafty |
| Callidity: | Acuteness of discernment cunningness shrewdness |
| Calligrapher: | One skilled in calligraphy a good penman |
| Calligraphic: | Of or pertaining to calligraphy |
| Calligraphist: | A calligrapher |
| Calligraphy: | Fair or elegant penmanship |
| Callimorpha: | a genus of insects comprising the cinnabar moths |
| Callinectes: | a genus of crustaceans comprising the New World blue crabs |
| Calling: | The act of one who calls a crying aloud esp in order to summon or to attact the attention of some one |
| Callionymidae: | a natural family comprising the dragonets |
| Calliope: | The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry mother of Orpheus and chief of the nine Muses |
| Calliophis: | a genus comprising the Asian coral snakes |
| Calliopsis: | A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis especially to Coreopsis tinctoria of Arkansas |
| Callipash: | See Calipash |
| Callipee: | See Calipee |
| Callipers: | See Calipers |
| Calliphoridae: | a natural family comprising the blowflies |
| Callirhoe: | small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers |
| Callisaurus: | a genus of lizards including the the zebratailed lizard |
| Callisection: | Painless vivisection opposed to sentisection |
| Callistephus: | a genus of plants having only one species an erect Asiatic herb with large flowers |
| Callisthenic: | See Calisthenic Calisthenics |
| Callithricidae: | a natural family comprising the marmosets |
| Callithrix: | the type genus of the Callithricidae the true marmosets |
| Callithump: | A somewhat riotous parade accompanied with the blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises also a burlesque serenade a charivari |
| Callithumpian: | Of pertaining to or resembling a callithump |
| Callitris: | a genus of evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs the cypress pines |
| Callophis: | a genus of Asian coral snakes |
| Callorhinus: | a genu sof fur seals |
| Callosan: | Of the callosum |
| Callose: | Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots |
| Callosity: | A hard or thickened spot or protuberance a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part eps as a result of continued pressure or friction |
| Callosum: | The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres See corpus callosum under Carpus |
| Callot: | A plant coif or skullcap Same as Calotte |
| Callous: | Hardened indurated |
| calloused: | having callouses of skin |
| callousness: | lack of passion or feeling |
| Callow: | A kind of duck See Old squaw |
| callowness: | having a lack of experience of life |
| Calluna: | a genus having only one species |
| Callus: | Same as Callosity |
| Calm: | Freedom from motion agitation or disturbance a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance as of winds or waves tranquility stillness quiet serenity |
| Calm: | To make calm to render still or quiet as elements as to calm the winds |
| Calm: | Not stormy without motion as of winds or waves still quiet serene undisturbed |
| Calmer: | One who or that which makes calm |
| calming: | tending to soothe or calm or tranquilize |
| Calmly: | In a calm manner |
| Calmness: | The state of quality of being calm quietness tranquillity selfrepose |
| Calmucks: | A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires also sing the language of the Calmucks |
| Calmy: | Tranquil peaceful calm |
| Calocedrus: | a genus of tall evergreens of West North America and East Asia formerly included in genus Libocedrus |
| Calochortus: | large genus of West North American leafystemmed bulbous herbs |
| Calomel: | 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 |
| Calopogon: | a genus of terrestrial orchids of North America |
| Calorescence: | The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility |
| Caloric: | 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 |
| Caloric: | Of or pertaining to caloric |
| Caloricity: | A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life that is the animal heat |
| Caloriduct: | A tube or duct for conducting heat a caliduct |
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