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Having the form or appearance of a calyx.

Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher.

Bell-shaped.

Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.

Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.

To make or become white, or candied. [R.]

To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.

In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.

The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

The woodbine or honeysuckle. Spenser.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacæ.

Having the form of a goat.

Producing or containing carbon or coal. Carboniferous age (Geol.), the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegatation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen. --…

The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.

The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.

To form flesh; to become like flesh. Sir M. Hale.

The act or process of forming cartilage. Wright.

A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison.

The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant.

Having the form of a caulis.