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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.

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.

The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.

See Chalice.

One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian. [Written also calycle. See Calycle.]

from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).…

The calico bass.

Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.

Hot; burning; ardent. [Obs.] Bailey.

Heat. [Obs.]

A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam. Subterranean caliducts have been introduced. Evelyn.

Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.

A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.

Of or pertaining to California. -- n.

Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Darkness. [R.] G. Eliot.

Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure. [R.] Blount. The caliginous regions of the air. Hallywell. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ness, n.

Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.

See Calligraphic.