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A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip. [Obs.] [Written also callat.]

Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty. [R.]

Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. [R.] Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.

One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.

A calligrapher

Fair or elegant penmanship.

The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.

A beautuful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.

A popular name given to a few species of the genus Careopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

See Calipash.

See Calipee.

See Calipers.

Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. B. G. Wilder.

See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.

A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horus, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari. [U. S.]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. [U. S.]

Of the callosum.

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.