अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.

The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage.

In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.

A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.

A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.

A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

See under Calcite.

Same as Calcite.

See under Calcite.

Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.

One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.

A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

A spur, or spurlike prominence.

A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.

A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

Alt. of Calcarated