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Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving.

Producing reeds; reedy.

Lime-yielding; calciferous

Shaped like a plipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.

Bearing producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime. Calciferouse epoch (Geol.), and epoch in the American lower Silurian system, immediately succeeding the Cambrian period. The name alludes to the peculiar mixture of calcareous and siliceous characteristics in many of the beds. See the Diagram under Grology…

Calciferous. Specifically: (Zoöl.) of or pertaining to hte portion of the which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles. Huxley.

The process of chenge into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.

In the form of chalk or lime.

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.

A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.

Of or pertaining to California. -- n.

See Calorificient.

An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.

See Calorificient.

Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating. Calorific rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sum, and burning and heated bodies.

Production of heat, esp. animal heat.

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.

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.