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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak.

A genus of plants, of the order Araceæ.

Same as Callet. [Obs.] A callat of boundless tongue. Shak.

A kind of head covering; a caul. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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 beautuful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.

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.