Vocabulary : Calendographer to Calf
Calendographer : One who makes calendars.
Calendrer : A person who calenders cloth; a calender.
Calendric : Alt. of Calendrical
Calendrical : Of or pertaining to a calendar.
Calends : The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.
Calendula : A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.
Calendulin : A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
Calenture : A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it. ;; To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
Calescence : Growing warmth; increasing heat.
Calf : The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale. ;; Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf. ;; An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt. ;; A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man. ;; A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface. ;; The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
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