CALCAR

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.

2.
n.

A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

3.
n.

A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

4.
n.

A spur, or spurlike prominence.

5.
n.

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.