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A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.

Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

To make warm or hot.

A pun.

An orderly list or enumeration of persons, 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.

Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.

Calendarial. [Obs.]

One who pursues the business of calendering. My good friend the calender. Cawper.

One who makes calendars. [R.]

A person who calenders cloth; a calender.

Of or pertaining to a calendar.

The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. [Written also kalends.] The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.

To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.

Growing warmth; increasing heat.

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light- colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.

The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu. [Written also Kali.]

size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber. The caliber of empty tubes. Reid. A battery composed of three guns of small caliber. Prescott.