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

Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson.

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

Scabby; scurfy; scall. [Obs.] "With scalled brows black." Chaucer. Scalled head. (Med.) See Scald head, under Scald, a.

So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).

Not called for; not required or needed; improper; gratuitous; wanton.

An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

r Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.

to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

cied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

rthern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to…

al year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

ttle absences and distractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

ntive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air. What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.