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{ n.; pl. Acalephs Acalephans [ See Acalephæ. ] (Zool.) One of the Acalephæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Acaleph + -oid. ] (Zool.) Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Meteor.) A scale of wind force devised by Sir F. Beaufort, R. N., in 1805, in which the force is indicated by numbers from 0 to 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The full scale is as follows: -- 0, calm; 1, light air; 2, light breeze; 3, gentle breeze; 4, moderate breeze; 5, fresh breeze; 6, strong breeze; 7, moderate gale; 8, fresh gale; 9, strong gale; 10, whole gale; 11, storm; 12, hurricane. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp. gr. 1.00, and the 30°-point to sp. gr. 0.85. From these points the scale is extended both ways, all the degrees being of equal length. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. calèche. ] See Calash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Caledonia or Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calefaciens p. pr. of calefacere to make warm; calere to be warm + facere to make. ] Making warm; heating. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calefactio: cf. F. caléfaction. ] 1. The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being heated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Calefactory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calefactorius. ] Making hot; producing or communicating heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Eccl.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Calefied p. pr. & vb. n. Calefying. ] [ L. calere to be warm + -fy ] To make warm or hot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow hot or warm. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A pun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kalender, calender, fr. L. kalendarium an interest or account book (cf. F. calendrier, OF. calendier) fr. L. calendue, kalendae, calends. See Calends. ] 1. An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shepherds of people had need know the calendars of tempests of state. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calendar clock, one that shows the days of the week and month. --
Calendar month. See under Month. --
French Republican calendar. See under Vendémiaire. --
Gregorian calendar,
Julian calendar,
Perpetual calendar. See under Gregorian, Julian, and Perpetual. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Calendared p. pr. & vb. n. Calendaring. ] To enter or write in a calendar; to register. Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Calendarial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. calandre, LL. calendra, corrupted fr. L. cylindrus a cylinder, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. See Cylinider. ] 1. A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who pursues the business of calendering. [ 1913 Webster ]

My good friend the calender. Cawper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Calendered p. pr. & vb. n. Calendering. ] [ Cf. F. calandrer. See Calender, n. ] To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Per. qalender. ] One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Calendar + -graph + er. ] One who makes calendars. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who calenders cloth; a calender. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a., Of or pertaining to a calendar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE. kalendes month, calends, AS. calend month, fr. L. calendae; akin to calare to call, proclaim, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. CF. Claim. ] The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. [ Written also kalends. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. calendae calends. ] (Bot.) A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. calenture, fr. Sp. calenture heat, fever, fr. calentar to heat, fr. p. pr. of L. calere to be warm. ] (Med.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hath fed on pageants floating through the air
Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calescens, p. pr. of calescere, incho. of calere to be warm. ] Growing warmth; increasing heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: seed ferns.
Syn. -- order Cycadofilicales, Lyginopteridales, order Lyginopteridales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to remove the scales from; -- e.g. of fish, or water boilers.
Syn. -- scale. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. 'ekkalei^n to call out ('ek out of + kalei^n to call) + bi`os life. ] A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with scales. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. an order including the Ericaceae; Clethraceae; Diapensiaceae; Epacridaceae; Lennoaceae; Pyrolaceae; and Monotropaceae.
Syn. -- order Ericales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An order coextensive with the family Fucaceae.
Syn. -- order Fucales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. using all available resources; -- of actions; as, a full-scale effort to find the perpetrator.
Syn. -- all-out. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. 1. Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows: 1. Hecatombæon (July-Aug.).
2. Metageitnion (Aug.-Sept.).
3. Boëdromion (Sept.-Oct.).
4. Pyanepsion (Oct.-Nov.).
5. Mæmacterion (Nov.-Dec.).
6. Poseideon (Dec.-Jan.).
7. Gamelion (Jan.-Feb.).
8. Anthesterion (Feb.-Mar.).
9. Elaphebolion (Mar.-Apr.).
10. Munychion (Apr.-May).
11. Thargelion (May-June).
12. Scirophorion (June-July). A fixed relation to the seasons was maintained by introducing an intercalary month, “the second Poseideon, ” at first in an inexact way, afterward in years 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 19 of the Metonic cycle. Dates were reckoned in Olympiads. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The Julian calendar, used in the Greek Church. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

or . A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by means of which many problems in surveying and navigation may be solved, mechanically, by the aid of dividers alone. [ 1913 Webster ]

. same as Jewish calendar. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or }. A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three years). The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11. The months are follows:

 Baisakh . . . . . . . . . . April-May Jeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . May-June Asarh . . . . . . . . . . . . June-July Sawan (Sarawan) . . . . . . . July-Aug. Bhadon . . . . . . . . . . . Aug.-Sept. Asin (Kuar). . . . . . . . . . Sept.-Oct. Katik (Kartik) . . . . . . . . Oct.-Nov. Aghan . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov.-Dec. Pus . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec.-Jan. Magh . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan.-Feb. Phagun (Phalgun) . . . . . . . Feb.-March Chait . . . . . . . . . . . . March-April