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1: Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681) [syn: {Calderon de la Barca}, {Pedro Calderon de la Barca}]

1: Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681) [syn: {Calderon}, {Pedro Calderon de la Barca}]

1: a very large pot that is used for boiling [syn: {cauldron}]

1: United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987) [syn: {Erskine Caldwell}, {Erskine Preston Caldwell}]

1: an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers...

1: a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century [syn: {calash}] 2: the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage [syn: {calash}, {calash top}]

1: the geographical area (in Roman times) north of the Antonine Wall; now a poetic name for Scotland

1: a canal in northern Scotland that links North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean; runs diagonally between Moray Firth at the northeastern end and Loch Linnhe at the southwestern end; now little used

1: producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body; "a mustard plaster is calefacient" [syn: {warming}]

1: the property of being warming [syn: {incalescence}]

1: serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: {calefactory}, {heating}]

1: serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: {calefactive}, {heating}]

1: a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year 2: a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc); "I have you on my calenda...

1: a day reckoned from midnight to midnight [syn: {civil day}]

1: natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle) [syn: {rh...

1: natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle) [syn: {rh...

1: one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year; "he paid the bill last month" [syn: {month}]

1: a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday [syn: {week}]

1: the year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar [syn: {civil year}]

1: a machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers v : press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets; "calend...

1: (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between rollers; "calendered paper"; "a dress of glossy sateen" [syn: {glossy}]

1: relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement; "calendric systems"; "solstice is a time of calendric importance" [syn: {calendrical}]

1: relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement; "calendric systems"; "solstice is a time of calendric importance" [syn: {calendric}]

1: any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes

1: the common European annual marigold [syn: {common marigold}, {pot marigold}, {ruddles}, {Scotch marigold}]

1: week-stemmed winter annual native to Mediterranean region for long established in southern United States; cultivated as a cover and pasture crop [syn: {singletary pea}, {rough pea}, {wild winterpea...

1: young of domestic cattle 2: the muscular back part of the shank [syn: {sura}] 3: fine leather from the skin of a calf [syn: {calfskin}] 4: young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or gir...

1: the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle [syn: {fibula}]

1: temporary love of an adolescent [syn: {puppy love}, {crush}, {infatuation}]

1: capturing a calf with a lasso and binding its feet

1: the brain of a calf eaten as meat

1: liver of a calf used as meat [syn: {calves' liver}]

1: the tongue of a calf eaten as meat

1: a savory jelly made with gelatin obtained by boiling calves' feet

1: fine leather from the skin of a calf [syn: {calf}]

1: the largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada

1: city in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area

1: a drug cartel that seized control of cocaine production in Colombia in 1993; adopted techniques used by terrorist organizations (small cells and sophisticated communications equipment and close tie...

1: a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber" [syn: {quality}, {calibre}] 2: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: {bore}, {gauge}, {...

1: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: {graduate}, {fine-tune}] 2: mark (the scale of a measuring instru...

1: marked with or divided into degrees; "a calibrated thermometer" [syn: {graduated}]

1: the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument; "the thermometer needed calibration" [syn: {standardization}, {standardisation}]

1: a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber" [syn: {quality}, {caliber}] 2: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: {bore}, {gauge}, {...

{calix}

1: crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions [syn: {hardpan}] 2: nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and ...

1: covered with caliche, a hard calcium-carbonate encrusted soil

1: made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat" 2: having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the p...

1: a variety of aster [syn: {starved aster}]

1: a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers [syn: {mountain laurel}, {wood laurel}, {American laurel}, {Kalmia latifolia}]

1: a cat having black and cream and yellowish markings [syn: {tortoiseshell}, {tortoiseshell-cat}]

1: brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States [syn: {American lady crab}, {lady crab}, {Ovalipes ocellatus}]

{calico}

1: relating to or resembling a calyculus [syn: {calycular}]

1: a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) [syn: {calyculus}, {calycle}]

1: a genus of Scolopacidae [syn: {genus Calidris}]

1: a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere [syn: {knot}, {grayback}]

1: Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew [syn: {curlew sandpiper}]

1: American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting [syn: {pectoral sandpiper}, {jacksnipe}]

1: the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth; "many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate ...

1: a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes [syn: {California}, {Golden State}, {CA}]