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

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

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

A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets.

The hollow at the flexure of the arm.

derived from, the celandine. Cheidonic acid, a weak acid extracted fron the celandine (Chelidonium majus), as a white crystalline substance.

A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.

A genus of exinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.

o strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.

Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm.

Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [R.] A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot.

Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified. The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [in 1715] consolidated. Rees. A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall.

The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam.

Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.

A coverlet. All the coverlid was clocth of gold. Tennyson.

A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.

certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.