<B>cake-eater, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a lady's man; playboy. </DL>
<A NAME="cakeflour">
<B>cake flour,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fine flour made from wheat that is low in gluten content, used in the baking of cakes. </DL>
<A NAME="cakeink">
<B>cake ink,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a black pigment molded into sticks or cakes for use in drawing and writing; India ink. </DL>
<A NAME="cakemix">
<B>cake mix,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the dry ingredients for a cake, sold packaged together. </DL>
<A NAME="cakemold">
<B>cake mold,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mold in which cakes, such as those of ink, soap, and lac, are formed. </DL>
<A NAME="cakesandale">
<B>cakes and ale,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> good things; pleasures of life. <BR> <I>Ex. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cakewalk">
<B>cakewalk, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a dance with prancing high steps that developed from an earlier march or promenade for couples. Dancers used to compete to see who could do the best or most original steps. The winner got a cake. <BR> <I>Ex. ... summoning up memories of the cakewalk, the blues, and other musical strains in its past (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a dance modeled on this. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang, Figurative.) something easily and certain to be carried out; cinch. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to do a cakewalk. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) He cakewalked to a five-game lead in the first set (New York Times).</I> noun <B>cakewalker.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="caky">
<B>caky, </B>adjective, <B>cakier,</B> <B>cakiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>like a cake. <DD><B> 2. </B>formed into a hardened mass. </DL>
<B>Cal.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>California. <DD><B> 2. </B>large or great calorie or calories. </DL>
<A NAME="calabar">
<B>calabar</B> or <B>calaber, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the fur of a gray Siberian squirrel. <DD><B> 2. </B>(formerly) the fur of a brown squirrel of Calabria. </DL>
<A NAME="calabarbean">
<B>Calabar bean,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the poisonous seed of a tropical African climbing plant of the pea family, from which the alkaloid physostigmine is obtained. </DL>
<A NAME="calabash">
<B>calabash, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a gourdlike fruit whose dried shell is used to make bottles, bowls, drums, rattles, or the like. <DD><B> b. </B>Also, <B>calabash tree.</B> the tropical American tree that it grows on. It belongs to the bignonia family. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bottle, bowl, drum, rattle, or the like, made from such a dried shell. <BR> <I>Ex. All hands simply begin, at nightfall, drinking calabashes of the repulsive-looking liquid (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>any one of various gourds, especially those whose necks are used for making tobacco pipes. <DD><B> b. </B>any one of the vine plants of the gourd family bearing such gourds. <DD><B> 4. </B>a pipe with a large bowl made from a gourd. </DL>
<A NAME="calabazilla">
<B>calabazilla, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a wild squash of Mexico and the southwestern United States with a fruit whose unripe pulp is used as a substitute for soap. Its exceedingly large root is macerated for use as a medicine. </DL>
<A NAME="calaboose">
<B>calaboose, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a jail; prison. <BR> <I>Ex. Why, send them to the calaboose, or some of the other places, to be flogged (Harriet Beecher Stowe).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="calabrian">
<B>Calabrian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Calabria (a district in southwestern Italy), its people, or their dialect. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a native or inhabitant of Calabria. <DD><B> 2. </B>the dialect of Italian spoken in Calabria. </DL>
<A NAME="caladium">
<B>caladium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of tropical American plants of the arum family, with large colorful leaves. </DL>
<A NAME="calamanco">
<B>calamanco, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a glossy woolen cloth, checked or brocaded in the warp so that the pattern shows on one side only. </DL>
<A NAME="calamander">
<B>calamander, </B>noun, or <B>calamander wood,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the hard, brown-and-black striped wood of an East Indian tree, used for cabinetwork. </DL>
<A NAME="calamary">
<B>calamary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-maries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a squid. </DL>
<A NAME="calamiform">
<B>calamiform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the form of a reed or feather. <BR> <I>Ex. a calamiform leaf.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="calamine">
<B>calamine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a pink powder made of zinc oxide and ferric oxide, used in lotions to relieve skin irritations or sunburn. <DD><B> 2. </B>(formerly) either of two kinds of zinc ore: <DD><B> a. </B>a silicate of zinc; hemimorphite. <DD><B> b. </B>(British.) smithsonite, a carbonate of zinc. </DL>
<A NAME="calaminelotion">
<B>calamine lotion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a soothing preparation containing zinc oxide, used for skin irritations, sunburn, and the like. </DL>
<A NAME="calamint">
<B>calamint, </B>noun. <B>=savory</B> (2).</DL>
<A NAME="calamistrum">
<B>calamistrum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tra.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of the curved, movable spines on the posterior legs of certain spiders, used to curl and bind the lines of silk coming from the spinnerets. </DL>
<A NAME="calamite">
<B>calamite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of Carboniferous fossil plant generally regarded as the ancestor of the equisetum. </DL>
<A NAME="calamitean">
<B>calamitean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or belonging to calamites. <BR> <I>Ex. the structure of the calamitean stem.</I> </DL>
<B>calamity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a great misfortune, such as a flood, a fire, the loss of one's sight or hearing, or of much money or property; disaster. <BR> <I>Ex. The spring floods were a great calamity to the farmers whose crops and homes were ruined.</I> (SYN) catastrophe. <DD><B> 2. </B>serious trouble; misery. <BR> <I>Ex. Many people still suffer from the calamity of hunger and poverty. The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time (Emerson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="calamityhowler">
<B>calamity howler</B> or <B>shouter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a noisy pessimist. <BR> <I>Ex. [They] were of the stripe of calamity shouters whose occupation is gone unless they can prove that calamity stalks abroad (Congressional Record).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="calamondin">
<B>calamondin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small orange with acid juice, native to the Philippines. </DL>
<A NAME="calamus">
<B>calamus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mi.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a plant with long, sword-shaped leaves; sweet flag. <DD><B> b. </B>its fragrant root, used especially in perfumes and medicines. <BR> <I>Ex. Steamed and roasted quamash bulb makes a rather acceptable molasses substitute ... and calamus or sweet flag are other choices (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of a group of slender, leafy palms whose long stems furnish rattan, canes, and the like. <DD><B> 3. </B>the quill of a feather; barrel. </DL>
<A NAME="calando">
<B>calando, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) gradually diminishing in tone and pace. </DL>
<A NAME="calandria">
<B>calandria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tank or boiler using heavy water to moderate fission in a nuclear reactor. </DL>
<A NAME="calascione">
<B>calascione, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a musical instrument of southern Italy, a limited sort of lute or guitar, having two catgut strings tuned a fifth apart, and played with a plectrum. </DL>
<A NAME="calash">
<B>calash, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>Also, <B>caleche.</B> a light, low carriage that usually has a folding top. <DD><B> 2. </B>a folding top or hood. <DD><B> 3. </B>a woman's silk hood or bonnet supported with hoops, worn in the 1700's and 1800's. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Canadian.) (formerly) <B>=caleche.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="calathus">
<B>calathus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-thi.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a basket shaped like a vase, often a symbol of fruitfulness, especially in ancient sculpture or pottery. </DL>
<A NAME="calaverite">
<B>calaverite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a telluride of gold, or of gold and silver, bronze-yellow and massive. <BR> <I>Ex. Next in importance to native gold as a source of the metal come the gold tellurides, chief of which is calaverite (W. R. Jones).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="calcaneum">
<B>calcaneum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nea.</B> <B>=calcaneus.</B></DL>
<A NAME="calcaneus">
<B>calcaneus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nei.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the bone of the human heel; the outer and largest one of the proximal row of tarsal bones; os calcis. <DD><B> 2. </B>the analogous bone in the foot of other vertebrates. </DL>
<A NAME="calcar">
<B>calcar, </B>noun, pl. <B>calcaria.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) a spur, or a projection resembling a spur. </DL>
<A NAME="calcarate">
<B>calcarate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> furnished with a calcar or spur; spurred. </DL>
<B>calcareous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or containing lime, calcium carbonate, or limestone. <BR> <I>Ex. The rate of deposition of the calcareous sediments formed from Foraminifera shells is faster with warmer water (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or containing calcium. <BR> <I>Ex. The outer surface of the body [of the starfish] is covered with hard calcareous plates that provide excellent support and protection for the delicate, soft body parts beneath (A. M. Winchester).</I> adv. <B>calcareously.</B> noun <B>calcareousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="calcariferous">
<B>calcariferous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany, Zoology.) bearing calcaria or spurs. </DL>
<A NAME="calceate">
<B>calceate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shod; wearing shoes (used of certain religious orders). </DL>
