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n. a type of calorimeter made of a steel body which closes tightly and resists high pressure, designed for measuring the amount of heat developed durng chemical combustion of a quantity of combustible material in an oxygen atmosphere. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. calor heat. ] (Physics) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat; cf. F. calorique. ] (Physics) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caloric expands all bodies. Henry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to caloric. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caloric engine, a kind of engine operated by heated air. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat (fr. calere to warm) + E. duct. ] A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. calor heat. ] (Physics) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0° to 1°. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) See Calorificient. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. calorifère, fr. L. calor heat + ferre to bear. ] An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) See Calorificient. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calorificus; calor heat + facere to make; cf. F. calorifique. ] Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calorific rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sun, and from burning and heated bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. calorification. ] Production of heat, esp. animal heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat + -meter; cf. F. calorimètre. ] 1. (Physiol.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. For combustion processes, a bomb calorimeter may be used. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Engineering) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calor heat + E. motor. ] (Physics) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

‖n. [ NL., heater, fr. L. calor heat. ] An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. & a. [ Scot. gelore, gilore, galore, fr. Gael. gu leòr, enough; gu- to, also an adverbial prefix + leòr, leòir, enough; or fr. Ir. goleor, the same word. ] Plenty; abundance; in abundance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not valorous; cowardly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Metal, L. metallum + E. organic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.; now usually organometallic. [ Written also metallorganic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. squalere to be foul or filthy. ] Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Situated above the lores; as, the supraloral feathers of a bird. -- n. A supraloral feather. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. valour, OF. valor, valur, valour, F. valeur, LL. valor, fr. L. valere to be strong, or worth. See Valiant. ] [ Written also valour. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Value; worth. [ Obs. ] “The valor of a penny.” Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

For contemplation he and valor formed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A brave man; a man of valor. [ R. ] Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Courage; heroism; bravery; gallantry; boldness; fearlessness. See Courage, and Heroism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pg. valorizacão. ] Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such action by Brazil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]