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A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. [Eng.] Dickens.

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

An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. [Obs.] Shak.

call to order, to request to come to order; as: (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business. (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of debate. -- To call to the bar, to admit to practice in courts of law. -- To call up. (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased frien…

One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade. The humble calling of ter female parent. Thackeray.

The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat. Caloric expands all bodies. Henry.

r developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.

e substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.

A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on. [U. S.]

-- Cant"ing*ness, n. Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.

A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree.

To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse. [Obs.] Birch.

A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke.

The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" Macauly.

for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business. The expenditure of the capitalist. Burke.

One whose business is to make or sell caps.

A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

lled by hand, used by railroad laborers, etc. [U. S.] -- Horse car, or Street car, an ommibus car, draw by horses or other power upon rails laid in the streets. [U. S.] -- Palace car, Drawing- room car, Sleeping car, Parior caretc. , (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers.…

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidæ. -- n.

Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus.