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One who calls.

A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip. [Obs.] [Written also callat.]

Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty. [R.]

Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. [R.] Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.

One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.

A calligrapher

Fair or elegant penmanship.

The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.

A musical instrument consisting of series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.

A popular name given to a few species of the genus Careopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

See Calipash.

See Calipee.

See Calipers.

Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. B. G. Wilder.

See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.

A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horus, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari. [U. S.]

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

Of the callosum.

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.