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Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.

An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses. Caliper square, a draugh…

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. [U. S.]

order Zygophylleæ, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.

Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.

A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.

Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

A song or air for one or more voices, of Provençal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.

Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as:

Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind. Hudibras.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacæ.

A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.