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Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende.

A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb.

An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.

Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage. [Written also bye-end.] "Profit or some other by-end." L'Estrange.

An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assemblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.

Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.

Calendarial. [Obs.]

One who pursues the business of calendering. My good friend the calender. Cawper.

One who makes calendars. [R.]

A person who calenders cloth; a calender.

Of or pertaining to a calendar.

The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. [Written also kalends.] The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

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.

A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.

Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

The chub. Walton.

Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glue…

baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.] Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. Shak.

A roundabout or indirect way. [Jocular] Goldsmith.

A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.