Vocabulary : Calfskin to Calicoback

Calfskin : The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.
Cali : The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu.
Caliber : Alt. of Calibre
Calibrate : 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.
Calibration : 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.

Calibre : The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber. ;; The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column. ;; Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind.
Calice : See Chalice.
Calicle : 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.
Calico : Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. ;; Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern. ;; Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
Calicoback : The calico bass. ;; An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.

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