Vocabulary : Calamus to Calcarated

Calamus : The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood. ;; A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors. ;; The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
Calando : Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.
Calash : A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. ;; In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front. ;; A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure. ;; A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.
Calaveras skull : A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.
Calaverite : A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

Calcaneal : Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.
Calcaneum : One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.
Calcar : A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. ;; A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. ;; A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. ;; A spur, or spurlike prominence. ;; A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
Calcarate : Alt. of Calcarated
Calcarated : Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. ;; Armed with a spur.

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