GLOSSARY. 



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CalcaTeo-arena'ceous. Consisting of 

 lime, or chalk, and sand. 



Calca'reous (Lat. calx, lime). Having 

 the properties of or containing lime. 



Cal'ceolate (Lat. cal'ceus, a shoe). 

 Like a shoe or slipper. 



Calcifica'tion (Lat. calx, lime ; facio, 

 I make). A hardening by the de- 

 position of salts of lime . 



Cal'cify ( Lat. calx, lime ; facio, I 

 make). To change into lime or 

 chalk ; to harden by the deposition 

 of salts of lime. 



Calcina'tioa (Lat. calx, lime). The 

 expelling by heat some volatile 

 matter from a substance, as carbo- 



. nate of lime (limestone) is reduced 

 to lime by driving off the carbonic 

 acid by heat. 



Calci'ne (Lat. calx, lime). To drive 

 off volatile matter by heat so as to 

 render a substance friable, as in 

 the operation of lime-burning. 



Careulus (Lat. a pebble). In mathe- 

 matics, a term applied to certain of 

 the more abstruse branches of 

 calculation ; in medicine a concre- 

 tion formed within the body. 



Calefa'cient (Lat. color, heat ; facio, 

 I make). Making warm; heating. 



Cal'endar (Lat. caleridce, the first 

 day of the Roman months). A 

 table of the days of each month, 

 with the events connected with 

 each. 



Cal'enture (Span, calentar 1 , to heat). 

 A violent ardent fever, principally 

 affecting sailors in hot climates. 



Calibre (Fr.). The diameter of a 

 round body ; the bore o'f a cylin- 

 drical tube, as of a gun. 



Calic'ifonn (Lat. calix, a cup ; forma, 

 shape). Shaped like a cup. 



Calisthenics (Gr. K<H\OS, Icalos, beau- 

 tiful ; crQevos, sthen'os, strength). 

 Exercise of the body and limbs to 

 promote strength and graceful 

 movements. 



Callos'ity (Lat. callus, hardness). A 

 hardness. 



Callus (Lat.). A hard deposit ; also 



applied to the excess of bony matter 



which is often formed in the process 



of union of broken bones. 



Calor'ic (Lat. caloi', heat). The prin- 



ciple of heat ; the cause of the 

 effects or phenomena popularly 

 recognised as heat. 



Calorifa'cient (Lat. color, heat; facio, 

 I make). Producing heat ; fur- 

 nishing material for the production 

 of heat. 



Calorific (Lat. color, heat ; facio, I 

 make). Producing heat. 



Calorim'eter (Lat. color, heat ; Gr. 

 juerpop, metron, a measure). An 

 instrument for measuring the rela- 

 tive quantities of heat contained in 

 bodies. 



Cal'otype (Gr. KO\OS, Jcalos, beautiful ; 

 TVTTOS, tupos, a type or impression). 

 A process of photography, in which 

 the picture is produced by the rapid 

 action of light on paper prepared 

 with iodide of silver and gallo- 

 nitrate of silver. 



Calyc'ifloral (Lat. calyx, a cup or 

 calyx ; flos, a flower). A subdivi- 

 sion of exogenous plants, including 

 those which are provided with both 

 calyx and corolla, the stamens being 

 perigynous or epigynous. 



Calyp'tra (Gr. KaXvirrca, Tealupto, I 

 cover). An appendage of the theca 

 in mosses, covering it at first. 



Calyp'trate (Gr. Kahinrrpa, Jcaluptra, 

 a covering). Having a calyptra or 

 covering ; in botany, applied to the 

 calyx of plants when it comes off 

 like an extinguisher. 



Calyx (Gr. KoAu|, calux, a shell, or 

 unopened flower). The row of 

 leaf-like organs, generally green, 

 which immediately surrounds a 

 flower. 



Cam'bium. In lotany, the mucilagi- 

 nous fluid which lies between the 

 young wood and the bark of a tree. 



Cam'era Luc'ida (Lat. a bright cham- 

 ber). An apparatus for facilitating 

 the delineation of objects, by pro- 

 ducing a reflected picture of them 

 on paper by means of a prism. 



Cam'era Obscu'ra (Lat. a dark cham- 

 ber). An apparatus in which, the 

 images of objects are received 

 through a double convex glass, and 

 exhibited in the interior of the 

 machine on a plane or curved sur- 

 face. 



