<B>call-over, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the reading aloud of a roll or list of names; roll call. <DD><B> 2. </B>a calling over or reading aloud of a list of prices, especially betting odds. <BR> <I>Ex. He had been quoted at 20 to 1 in the call-over on Monday night, but 100 to 8 was the best price obtainable by midday yesterday (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="callow">
<B>callow, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>young and inexperienced. <BR> <I>Ex. a callow youth. Despite their callow optimism, [his] words are refreshingly sincere and enthusiastic in a business that is too often cynical (Newsweek).</I> (SYN) green. <DD><B> 2. </B>not fully grown or developed; immature. <BR> <I>Ex. Like the callow ants, these larvae have an excitatory effect on the workers (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>without feathers sufficiently developed for flight. <BR> <I>Ex. a callow bird.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>low-lying and liable to flooding. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>callow land; bottoms. <DD><B> 2. </B>a weak, pale-colored ant or other insect just hatched from its cocoon. noun <B>callowness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="callrate">
<B>call rate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the rate of interest charged on call loans. </DL>
<A NAME="callsign">
<B>call sign,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the set of symbols identifying a radio operator or station or television station; call letters. </DL>
<A NAME="callslip">
<B>call slip,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a printed form in a library which is filled out to request a particular book. </DL>
<A NAME="calltoquarters">
<B>call to quarters,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a bugle signal sounded fifteen minutes before taps, warning soldiers to go to quarters. </DL>
<A NAME="callup">
<B>call-up, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a summoning of persons to duty or training, especially a summoning of men to military duty or training; draft. <BR> <I>Ex. In Paris, the Government authorized the call-up of 10,000 troops (New York Times). The call-up of agricultural workers for the forces would be suspended in order to help with the harvest (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="callus">
<B>callus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-luses,</B> verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> Also, <B>callosity.</B> <B>1. </B>a hard, thickened place on the skin. <DD><B> 2. </B>a new growth to unite the ends of a broken bone. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a substance that grows over the wounds of plants. <DD><B> b. </B>the thickening of the substance of the perforated septa (dividing walls) between sieve cells. <DD><B> c. </B>the thickening formed over the end of a cutting before it sends forth roots. <DD><B> d. </B>any unusually hard formation in or on a plant. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to form or develop a callus. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to form or develop a callus on. </DL>
<A NAME="calm">
<B>calm, </B>adjective, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>not stormy or windy; not stirred up; quiet; still. <BR> <I>Ex. In fair weather the sea is usually calm.</I> (SYN) motionless, smooth, placid. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) not excited; peaceful. <BR> <I>Ex. Although she was frightened, she answered with a calm voice.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>absence of wind or motion; quietness; stillness. <BR> <I>Ex. There was a sudden calm as the wind dropped.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) absence of excitement; peacefulness; tranquility. <BR> <I>Ex. After the excitement of the birthday party the household settled into its usual calm. Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep (Wordsworth).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Meteorology.) a condition in which the wind has a velocity of less than 1 mile per hour (on the Beaufort scale, force 0). <DD><I>v.i. </I> to become calm. <BR> <I>Ex. The crying baby soon calmed down. The storm ceased and the sea calmed.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make calm. <BR> <I>Ex. Mother calmed the frightened baby.</I> adv. <B>calmly.</B> noun <B>calmness.</B> </DL>
<B>calomel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white, tasteless, crystalline powder, a compound of mercury and chlorine, formerly used in medicine as a laxative and now used as a local antiseptic and fungicide; mercurous chloride. </DL>
<A NAME="calorescence">
<B>calorescence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the change of nonluminous heat rays into light rays. </DL>
<A NAME="caloric">
<B>caloric, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having to do with heat. <BR> <I>Ex. The caloric effect of sunlight.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with calories. <BR> <I>Ex. the caloric content of grapefruit is very low.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a supposed elastic fluid, to which the phenomena of heat were formerly attributed. <BR> <I>Ex. Heat was formerly thought to be an invisible weightless fluid called caloric, which was produced when a substance burned and which could be transmitted by conduction from one body to another (Sears and Zemansky).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Rare.) heat. adv. <B>calorically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="caloricity">
<B>caloricity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the faculty in warm-blooded animals of developing heat so as to maintain nearly the same temperature at all times. </DL>
<A NAME="calorie">
<B>calorie</B> or <B>calory, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>either of two units for measuring the amount of heat: <DD><B> a. </B>the quantity of heat needed to raise by one degree centigrade (Celsius) the temperature of a gram of water; small calorie. <BR> <I>Ex. Careful experiments show that it takes about 80 calories of heat to melt one gram of ice (Beauchamp, Mayfield, and West).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the quantity of heat needed to raise by one degree centigrade the temperature of a kilogram of water; large calorie. <BR> <I>Ex. The large calorie or "kilogram-calorie" is equal to 1000 small calories (Parks and Steinbach).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a unit of the energy supplied by food. It corresponds to a large calorie. An ounce of sugar will produce about a hundred calories. <DD><B> b. </B>the quantity of food capable of producing such an amount of energy. </DL>
<A NAME="calorific">
<B>calorific, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>producing heat. <DD><B> 2. </B>producing food calories; caloric. <BR> <I>Ex. Passengers last year downed 83,000 glasses of Irish coffee ... a calorific combination of whiskey, coffee and cream (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) showing feeling or emotion; warm. adv. <B>calorifically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="calorification">
<B>calorification, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the production of heat, especially animal heat. </DL>
<A NAME="calorificvalue">
<B>calorific value,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the calories or thermal units contained in one unit of a substance, and released when it is burned. </DL>
<B>calorimeter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an apparatus for measuring the quantity of heat given off by or present in a body, such as the specific heat of different substances or the heat of chemical combination. <BR> <I>Ex. The calorimeter consists essentially of two covered metallic cups, one of which is small enough to fit inside the other (W. N. Jones).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="calorimetric">
<B>calorimetric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the calorimeter or calorimetry. adv. <B>calorimetrically.</B> </DL>
<B>calorimetrist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in calorimetry. </DL>
<A NAME="calorimetry">
<B>calorimetry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quantitative measurement of heat. <DD><B> 2. </B>studies involving the use of the calorimeter. </DL>
<A NAME="calorist">
<B>calorist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who held the view accepted by many scientists of the 1700's that heat is an elastic fluid, which they called caloric. </DL>
<A NAME="caloristic">
<B>caloristic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the calorists. </DL>
<A NAME="calorizing">
<B>calorizing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Metallurgy.) the process of coating the surface of a metal, especially steel, with aluminum, in order to protect it from rust and heat. </DL>
<A NAME="calory">
<B>calory, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B> <B>=calorie.</B></DL>
<A NAME="calosoma">
<B>calosoma, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a species of ground beetles that feed on the gypsy moth, the brown-tail moth, cutworms, and other injurious insects. </DL>
<A NAME="calot">
<B>calot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a woman's hat, resembling a small, tight-fitting skullcap. </DL>
<A NAME="calotte">
<B>calotte, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plain skullcap, such as the zucchetto worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics. </DL>
<A NAME="calotype">
<B>calotype, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a photographic process invented in 1841; talbotype. The pictures were made on paper sensitized with silver iodide. <DD><B> 2. </B>the picture so made. </DL>
<A NAME="caloyer">
<B>caloyer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a monk of the Eastern Church. </DL>
<A NAME="calp">
<B>calp, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a dark limestone found in Ireland. </DL>
<A NAME="calpac">
<B>calpac</B> or <B>calpack, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large cap of sheepskin, felt, or wool, worn by Turks and some nearby peoples. Also, <B>kalpac.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="calpullec">
<B>calpullec, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the leader of the council of family heads that governed the calpulli. </DL>
<A NAME="calpulli">
<B>calpulli, </B>noun, pl. <B>calpulli.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the primary land-owning unit among the Aztecs. </DL>
<A NAME="calque">
<B>calque, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an expression that is a literal translation of a foreign expression; loan translation. (Example:) German <I>mitleiden</I> "to sympathize with" is a calque from Latin <I>compati,</I> which, in turn, is a calque from Greek <I>sympathein.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a native word or phrase having a new meaning that has been borrowed from an old meaning in a corresponding foreign word. (Example:) English <I>lip</I> "liplike part in a plant or animal" is a calque from Latin <I>labium.</I> </DL>
