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Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift.

Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.

Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered. Bullate leaf (Bot.), a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.

Bursiform.

Art of producing metal decorative work other than statuary, as reliefs, intaglios, engraving, chasing, etc.

Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.

inary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute. A calencar exacity calculated than any othe. North.

Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.

Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle.

Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation. Long habits of calculative dealings. Burke.

causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. Ambition is no exact calculator. Burke.

Belonging to calculation. Sherwood.

Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.

Same as Callet. [Obs.] A callat of boundless tongue. Shak.

Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.

Bell-shaped.

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

g of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.