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cadence lull Seafaring men o'erwatched. Milton. The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. Sir W. Scott.

a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.

A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [Turkey]

A restaurant or café at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. [U. S.]

box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.

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

Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.

s logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle.

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.

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…

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

spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter. Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol.

f the order Zygophylleæ, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.

Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.

A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.