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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,448 words match “CALL”

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

CALLITHUMPIAN a.

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.

The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.

A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.

CALLOUS a. 2 definitions

Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison.

CALLOW a. 3 definitions

tute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.

CALLUS n. 3 definitions

Same as Callosity. (b

ACADEMICALLY adv.

In an academical manner.

ACHROMATICALLY adv.

In an achromatic manner.

ACOUSTICALLY adv.

In relation to sound or to hearing. Tyndall.

ACRONYCALLY adv.

In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.

ACROSTICALLY adv.

After the manner of an acrostic.

AGAMICALLY adv.

In an agamic manner.

AGONISTICALLY adv.

In an agonistic manner.

ALCHEMICALLY adv.

In the manner of alchemy.

ALGEBRAICALLY adv.

By algebraic process.

ALLOPATHICALLY adv.

In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods.