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See Dionyfius Homer’s’thoughts refine, 
And call new beauties forth from ev’ry line. Pope. 
To ftigmatize with fome- opprobrious denomination.— 
Deafnefs unqualifies men for all company, except friends; 
whom 1 can call names, if they do not fpeak loud enough. 
Swift. 
To Cali, back. To revoke; to retrafl.—He alfo is 
wife, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words; 
but will arife againft the houfe of the evil doers ; and 
again ft the help of them that work iniquity. Ifaiah, xxxi. 2 . 
To Call for. To demand; tp require ; to claim : 
Madam, his majefly doth call foe you, 
And for your grace, and you, my noble lord. Shakefpeare. 
To Call in. To refume money at filtered.—Horace 
deferibes an old ufurer, as fo charmed with the pleafures 
of a country life, that, in order to make a purchafe, he 
called in all his money ; but what was the event of it ? why, 
in a Very few days after, he put it out again. Adclijon. 
To Call in. To fummon together ; to invite : 
He fears my fubjects loyalty, 
And now mu ft call in ftrangers. Denham. 
To Cali, over. To read aloud a lift or mufter-roll. 
To Call out. To challenge ; to fummon to fight: 
When their fov’reign’s quarrel calls ’em out, 
His fees to mortal combat they defy. Dryden. 
To CALL, v. n. To flop without intention of (laying. 
This meaning probably role from the cuftom of denoting 
one’s prefence at the door by a call ; but it. is now ufed 
with-great latitude. This fen'fe is well enough preferved 
by the particles on or at ; but is forgotten, and the expref- 
fion made barbarous, by in. To make a (hort vilit. — He 
ordered her to call at his houfe once a-week, which (lie 
did for fome time after, w hen he heard no more of her. 
Temple. —That 1 might begin as near the fountain-head as 
pollible, 1 firft of all called in at St. James’s. Addifon. 
To Call on. To folicit for a favour, or a debt.—I 
would be loth to pay him before his day; what need I be 
fo forward with him, that calls, not on me ? Shakefpeare. 
To Call upon. To implore ; to pray to.— Call upon 
me in the day of trouble ; I will deliver thee, and thou 
limit glorify me. Pfalni 1. i 
CALI., f. A vocal adqrefs of fummons or invitation : 
But would you ling, and rival Orpheus’ ftrain, 
The wond’ring forefts loon Humid dance again : 
The moving mountains hear the pow’rful call, 
And headlong dreams hang lift’ning in their full. Pope. 
Reqnifition authoritative and public. — It may be feared, 
whether our nobility would contentedly differ themfelves 
to be always at the call, and to (Land to the fentence, of 
a number of mean perfons. hooker. —Divine vocation ; 
fummons to true religion : 
Yet he at length, time to lrimfelf beft known, 
Rememb’ring Abraham, by fome wond’rous call, 
May bring them back repentant and fincere. Milton. 
A fummons from heaven; an impnlfe : 
How juftly then will impious mortals fall, 
Whole pride would foar to heav’n without a call! Rnfcem. 
Authority; command.—Oh, fir! I wifti lie were within 
my call, or yours. Denham. —A demand ; a claim.—De¬ 
pendence is u perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater 
incitement to tenderne'fs and pity, than any other motive 
whatfoevef. Addifon. — An inftruvnent to call birds. (See 
Bird-catching.)—F or tliofe birds or beads were made 
from Inch pipes or calls, as may exprefs the feveral tones 
of thofe creatures, which are reprefented. Wilkins _Call¬ 
ing; vocation; employment: 
Now through the land his edre of fouls he ftretch’d, 
And like a primitive apoftle preach’d : 
Still cheerful, ever conftant to his call ; 
By many follow’d, lov’d by mod, admir’d by all. Dryden. 
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CALL, A Among miners, denotes fchoerl or cockle, 
and other matters ; but Da Coda fays that, definitely 
fpeaking, it denotes the mineral called wolfram. 
CAL'LA, ffy.xKKu.vjv, palcdria galli, the wattles of a' 
cock.] Ethiopian Arum ; in botany, a genus of the 
clafs gynandria, order polyandria, natural order piperittc. 
The generic characters are—Calyx: fpathe one-leaved, 
ovate-.cordate, acuminate, coloured at top, very largei 
fpreading, permanent; fpadix finger-fhaped, quite finiple, 
ereft, covered with fructifications. Corolla: none. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments fome, intermixed with the germs, the 
length of the piftils, permanent, comprelfed, truncate ; 
anthene fimple, truncate, feflile. Fiftillum : to each a 
roundilh-obtufe germ ; ftyle< Jimple, very fhort ; ftigma 
acute. Pericarpium : berries as many as there,are piftils, 
four-cornered, globular, pulpy-, one-celled. Seeds: many 
(fix to twelve), oblong, cylindric, obtufe at Both ends. 
Since in each berry there are feveral feeds, it follows that 
each piftil belongs to as many flofcules, and are.not parts 
of one and the fame flower; (ince, however, a perian'thium 
and corolla are wanting to feparate the ftamens, it is dif¬ 
ficult to alfign the exact number of thefe to each fiofcule. 
—Efential Charaher. Spathe flat ; fpadix covered with 
flofcules; calyx and petals none; berries many-feeded. 
Species. 1. Calla-/Ethiopica, or /Ethiopian calla : leave? 
faggitate-cordate, fpathe cowled, fpadix male at top. This 
plant has thick, flelhy, tuberous, roots, which are covered 
w ith a thin brown fkin, and ftrike down many ftrong flefliy 
fibres into the ground. The leaves arife in cinders, ha¬ 
ving foot-ftalks more than a foot long, which are green 
and fucculent. The leaves are eight or nine incites in 
length, and of a fhining green, ending in a dtarp point, 
which turns backward; between the leaves come? out the 
fcape, which is thick, fmooth, of the fame colour as the 
leaves, rifes above them, and is terminated by a (ingle 
flower, lhaped like thole of the arum ; the hood or fpathe 
is twilled at the bottom, but fpreads open at the top, and 
is of a pure white colour. 1 n the center of this is fituated 
the fpadix or club, which is of an herbaceous yellow co¬ 
lour, upon which the fnuill herbaceous flowers are placed, 
fo clofely jointed as that the ftamens and piftils are very 
difficult to diftinguifii, without the alliftance of glalfes ; it 
is only about half the length of the fpathe. When the 
flowers fade, fome of thofe which are at the top are fuc- 
ceeded by roundilh flelhy berries, comprelfed on two (ides, 
each containing two or three feeds. This plant grows na¬ 
turally at tiie Cape of Good Hope, but has been long an 
inhabitant in the EngliHi gardens. Commelin fays, that 
the living plant was fent to him fiftrtJSy. Mr. Miller cul¬ 
tivated fit in 1731. It flowers from January to May. 
2. Calla paluftris, or marfli calla: leaves cordate, fpathe 
flat, fpadix hermaphrodite all over. Leaves erefi, acu¬ 
minate, ftreaked, bright or yellowilh green, fmooth, four 
or five inches long, and three or four broad, alternately 
embracing the ftem, with thick fmoqth fucculent petioles 
five or fix inches long". Scape round, thick, fucculent, 
fmooth, bright green. Two ovate bluntifh ftipules at the 
bafe of the petioles. Spathe roundilh ovate, roiled up ar 
the end into a bluntifh fpine, yellowifh green below, white 
and fmooth above. Spadix ovate, obtufe. Berries (’mail, 
many, feflile on a conic bed, four or five cornered, or elfe/ 
round, wrinkled about the edge, fir ft green, then red, 
fmooth, foft, flat at top, crowned with a fhort ftyle. Seeds 
fix to nine, fometimes only one to three, in a vifcid muci¬ 
lage; fometimes none. The roots creep in the mud fo as 
fometimes to cover whole marflres. They have a Hot biting 
Aafte, and yet bread is fometimes made of them. It flow¬ 
ers from June to Auguft, and is a native of Lapland, Swe¬ 
den, Denmark, Ruftia, Germany, and Holland. It was' 
introduced in 1770, by Daniel Charles Solander, LI,. D. 
but bad been probably cultivated by Mr. Miller before. 
3. Calla orientalis, or oriental calla : leaves ovate. This- 
alfo has a thick tuberous root, from which fpring up (e- 
vernl ovate leaves, Handing on pretty long foot-ftalks : 
the fcape. rifes between tli? leaves, about fix or eight 
incite Sc. 
