2. a stratum of calcium carbonate in the soil of an arid or semiarid region. [ PJC ]

The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calico bass (Zool.), 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cephalic index (Anat.), the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. --
Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Relating to Italy or to its people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500. [ 1913 Webster ]

Italic languages, the group or family of languages of ancient Italy. --
Italic order (Arch.), the composite order. See Composite. --
Italic school, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were first promulgated. --
Italic version. See Itala. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The use of Italics. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body. Henslow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Malic acid, (Chem.) a hydroxy acid (HO.CO.CH2.CH(OH).CO.OH) obtained from unripe fruit (such as green apples, currants, tomatoes or cherries) as a substance which is sirupy or crystallized with difficulty, and has a strong but pleasant sour taste. It is levorotatory or dextrorotatory according to the temperature and concentration; the natural form is of L- conformation. A synthetic variety is a derivative of succinic acid, but as with most simple synthetic compounds, is a racemic mixture of isomers and thus has no rotatory action on polarized light. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Envy, hatred, and malice are three distinct passions of the mind. Ld. Holt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Malice aforethought or
Malice prepense, malice previously and deliberately entertained. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Spite; ill will; malevolence; grudge; pique; bitterness; animosity; malignity; maliciousness; rancor; virulence. See Spite. -- Malevolence, Malignity, Malignancy. Malice is a stronger word than malevolence, which may imply only a desire that evil may befall another, while malice desires, and perhaps intends, to bring it about. Malignity is intense and deepseated malice. It implies a natural delight in hating and wronging others. One who is malignant must be both malevolent and malicious; but a man may be malicious without being malignant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Proud tyrants who maliciously destroy
And ride o'er ruins with malignant joy. Somerville. [ 1913 Webster ]

in some connections, malignity seems rather more pertinently applied to a radical depravity of nature, and malignancy to indications of this depravity, in temper and conduct in particular instances. Cogan. [ 1913 Webster ]

I grant him bloody, . . .
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
That has a name. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act. [ 1913 Webster ]

Malicious abandonment, the desertion of a wife or husband without just cause. Burrill. --
Malicious prosecution or
Malicious arrest (Law), a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious; malevolent; invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant; rancorous; malign. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Ma*li"cious*ly, adv. -- Ma*li"cious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]