Calibration
(Cal`ibra"*tion) n. 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.
Calice
(Cal"ice) n. [See Calice.] See Chalice.
Calicle
(Cal"i*cle) n. [L. caliculus a small cup, dim. of calicis, a cup. Cf Calycle.] (Zoöl.) (a) 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.
[Written also calycle. See Calycle.]
Calico
(Cal"i*co) n.; pl. Calicoes [So called because first imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf.
F. calicot.]
1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and
use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.]
The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of
the East India Company
. Beck 2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric.
Calico bass (Zoöl.), an edible, fresh-water fish (Pomoxys sparaides) of the rivers and lake of the Western
United States (esp. of the Misissippi valley.), allied to the sunfishes, and so called from its variegated
colors; — called also calicoback, grass bass, strawberry bass, barfish, and bitterhead. — Calico
printing, the art or process of impressing the figured patterns on calico.
Calico
(Cal"i*co) a. 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. [Colloq.
U. S.]
Calicoback
(Cal"i*co*back`) n. (Zoöl.) (a) The calico bass. (b) An hemipterous insect (Murgantia
histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; — called also calico bug and harlequin
cabbage bug.
Calicular
(Ca*lic"u*lar) a. Caliculate
(Ca*lic"u*late) a. Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly
used for calycular, calyculate.
Calid
(Cal"id) a. [L. calidus, fr. calere to be hot.] Hot; burning; ardent. [Obs.] Bailey.
Calidity
(Ca*lid"i*ty) n. Heat. [Obs.]
Caliduct
(Cal"i*duct) n. [See Caloriduct.] A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.
Subterranean caliducts have been introduced.
Evelyn.
Calif
(Ca"lif) n., Califate
(Cal"i*fate) n., etc. Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.
Californian
(Cal`i*for"ni*an) a. Of or pertaining to California. — n. A native or inhabitant of California.
Caligation
(Cal`i*ga"tion) n. [L. caligatio, fr. caligare to emit vapor, to be dark, from caligo mist, darkness.]
Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Caliginosity
(Ca*lig`i*nos"ity) n. [L. caliginosus dark. See Caligation.] Darkness. [R.] G. Eliot.
