CALORIC

n. a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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 expands all bodies. Henry.

2.
a.

Of or pertaining to caloric. Caloric engine, a kind of engine operated air.