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A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.

A strainer. See Colander.

Things to be erased or blotted out.

To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.

See Forlend. [Obs.] As if that life to losse they had forelent. Spenser.

To give up wholly. [Obs.]

Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows:

A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

= Jewish calendar.

A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three years). The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11. The months are follows:…

taining considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species. Hornblende schist (Geol.), a hornblende rock of schistose structure.

Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.

A lunisolar calendar in use among Hebraic peoples, reckoning from the year 3761 b. c., the date traditionally given for the Creation. It received its present fixed form from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the…

See Calendar.

See Calendarial.

See 3d Calender.

Same as Calends.

Same as Malanders.

A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira, 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having 354 days. By the following tables any Mohammedan date may be changed into…