Vocabulary : Caliph to Calk

Caliph : Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.
Caliphate : The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
Calippic : Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.
Calisaya bark : A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.
Calistheneum : A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children.

Calisthenics : The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.
Calisthenis : Of or pertaining to calisthenics.
Caliver : An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore.
Calix : A cup. See Calyx.
Calk : To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch. ;; To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice. ;; To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held. ;; A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin. ;; An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping. ;; To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox. ;; To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the

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