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with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. "This sad and calamitous condition." South. "A calamitous prison" Milton.

(Mus.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.

predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity. A cunning man did calculate my birth. Shak.

branch of mathematics which treats of the forms of functions that shall satisfy given conditions. -- Calculus of operations, that branch of mathematical logic that treats of all operations that satisfy given conditions. -- Calculus of probabilities, the science that treats of the computation of the probabilities of…

The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. [Brokers' Cant]

Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.

Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. [Obs.] Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor. Massinger.

ap, foolsap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of…

Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.

The quality or condition of being capillary.

money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business. The expenditure of the capitalist. Burke.

To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions. [R.]

A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

alline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.

The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander. "To take the captainship." Shak.

The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal

An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.

ure, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.

s, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstamces; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes. In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge. Deut. xxiv. 13. If the case of the man be so with his wife. Matt. xix. 10. And…