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Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.

Near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person by at the time.

. . . brought her [his disgraced slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano. Evelyn.

The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

hird letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek got it from…

A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. -- Cable road, a railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a statio…

A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. Kane.

A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.

An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembing the bolero. [Sometimes in English spelled cachuca (.] The orchestra plays the cachucha. Logfellow.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomain…

An alkaloid resembing physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.

Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.

d concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

sons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assemblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.

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…

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak.

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

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat nesessary to life, that is, the animal heat.