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CALCIFIED a.
Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.
CALCIFY v.
To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
CALCIGEROUS a.
Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.
CALL v. 2 definitions
name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. If you would but call me Rosalind. Shak. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Gen. i. 5.
CALVARY n.
The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem. Luke xxiii. 33.
CALVER v. 2 definitions
To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon. [Obs.] For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats. Massinger.
CAMARASAURUS n.
us of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.
CAMPHORATE n.
A salt of camphoric acid.
CANDLE n.
made of the pith of certain rushes, peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease. -- Sale by inch of candle, an auction in which persons are allowed to bid only till a small piece of candle burns out. -- Standard candle (Photom.), a special form of candle employed as a standard in photometric measurements; usuall…
CANON BONE n.
nd legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
CANT n. 2 definitions
A all for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell their leases by cant." Swift.
CANTICLE n.
A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.
CAP v.
To salute by removing the cap. [Slang. Eng.] Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows. Thackeray.
CAPELIN n.
A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidæ, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. [Written also capelan and caplin.]
CAPRATE n.
A salt of capric acid.
CAPROATE n.
A salt of caproic acid.
CAPRYLATE n.
A salt of caprylic acid.
CARBAMIC a.
acid (Chem.), an amido acid, NH2.CO2H, not existing in the free state, but occurring as a salt of ammonium in commercial ammonium carbonate; -- called also amido formic acid.
CARBANIL n.
A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.
CARBAZOTATE n.
A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.
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