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ting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.

ntific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat. Caloric expands all bodies. Henry.

ic rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sum, and burning and heated bodies.

An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.

Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.

The private audience chamber of a king.

A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.

The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc. The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. Macaulay.

One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

To make or become white, or candied. [R.]

A genus of trees of the order Canellaceæ, growing in the West Indies.

canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

o a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds as canonical sever…

A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. [Written also cantine..]

A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandière.

A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange.

ap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge." -- To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To set one's c…

A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.

A sort of cotton so short and fine thet it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.