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An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall.

A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.

The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away. B. Jonson.

A stall or stand where books are sold.

In a brutal manner; cruelly.

A toil or net to take deer.

A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.

The buffel duck.

See Buttonwood.

In a cabalistic manner.

One who cabals. A close caballer and tongue-valiant lord. Dryden.

An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.

A knight or cavalier; hence, a gentleman.

Caballine aloes. Caballine aloes, an inferior and impure kind of aloes formerly used in veterinary practice; -- called also horse aloes. -- Caballine spring, the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; - - fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

A horse. [Sp. Amer.]

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak.

A genus of plants, of the order Araceæ.

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

A kind of head covering; a caul. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who calls.