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A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam. Subterranean caliducts have been introduced. Evelyn.

Freodom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or abeence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stilness; quiet; serenity. The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Mark. iv. 39. A calm before a storm is commonly a peace of a man's own making. South.…

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

.] American calumba, the Frasera Carolinensis, also called American gentian. Its root has been used in medicine as bitter tonic in place of calumba.

The 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 local European measure of length. See Canna. Cane borer (Zoö.), A beetle (Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc. -- Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks a…

e cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles.

In the manner of cannibal. "An he had been cannibally given." Shak.

The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

A beetle (Lytta, or Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blist…

The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.

A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil. History . . . does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar. J. H. Newman.

A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. Watts.

A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.

monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish. Capricorn beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Carambucidæ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.

Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed. Women have been captivate ere now. Shak.

agem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort. Her heart is like some fortress that has been captured. W. Ivring.

The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa.

One of the Carabidæ, a family of active insectivorous beetles.

A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.