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Quality of being calcareous.

Lime-yielding; calciferous

Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.

A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos.]

Fitted with, or wearing, shoes. Johnson.

Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.

A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

See Chalcedonic.

Shaped like a plipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.

A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plant, biought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.

See Calx.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.

Bearing producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime. Calciferouse epoch (Geol.), and epoch in the American lower Silurian system, immediately succeeding the Cambrian period. The name alludes to the peculiar mixture of calcareous and siliceous characteristics in many of the beds. See the Diagram under Grology…

Calciferous. Specifically: (Zoöl.) of or pertaining to hte portion of the which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles. Huxley.

The process of chenge into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.

In the form of chalk or lime.

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.