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consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.

Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen. Lyell.

Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths.

calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containg, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. Clcareous spar. See as Calcite.

Quality of being calcareous.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

A cayman. See Yacare.

Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.

Excessive care. Dryden.

Too careful. Shak.

Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

ighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden.

An alarm of fire. [Obs.]

Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.

Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.

Not cared for; not heeded; -- with for.

A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman. [Written also jacare.]

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [R.] Carlyle.