3. To call on. To solicit for a favour or CA'LLING. n. s. [from call.] I would be loth to pay him before his day; what need I be so forward with him, that calls not on me? Shakspeare's Henry IV. To repeat solemnly. 4. To call on. And hail me thrice to everlasting rest. Dryden. The Athenians, when they lost any men at sea, went to the shores, and, calling thrice on their names, raised a cenotaph, or empty monument, to their memories. Broome on the Odyssey. 5. To call upon. To implore; to pray to. Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Psalms. CALL. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. A vocal address of summons or invitation. But death comes not at call, justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for pray'rs or cries. Milton. But would you sing, and rival Orpheus'strain, The wond'ring forests soon should dance again: The moving mountains hear the powerful call, And headlong streams hang list'ning in their fall. Pope. 2. Requisition authoritative and public. It may be feared, whether our nobility would contentedly suffer themselves to be always at the call, and to stand to the sentence, of a number of mean persons. Hooker's Preface. 3. Divine vocation; summons to true religion. Yet he at length, time to himself best known, Rememb'ring Abraham, by some wond'rous call, May bring them back repentant and sincere. Milton. 4. A summons from heaven; an impulse. How justly then will impious mortals fall, Whose pride would soar to heav'n without a call. Roscommon. Those who to empire by dark paths aspire, Still plead a call to what they most desire. Dryd. St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the christians, whom he confidently thought in the wrong but yet it was he, and not they, who Locke. were mistaken. 5. Authority; command. Oh, sir! I wish he were within my call, or Denham. yours. 6. A demand; a claim. Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity; and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity, than any other motive whatsoever. Addison. 7. An instrument to call birds. For those birds or beasts were made from such And like a primitive apostle preach'd: 9. A nomination. Upon the sixteenth was held the serjeants feast at Ely place, there being nine serjeants of that call. Bacon. CA'LLAT.7 CAʼLLET. }n. s. A trull. He call'd her whore; a beggar, in his drink, Could not have laid such terms upon his callet. Shakspeare. 1. If God has interwoven such a pleasure with our ordinary calling, how much superior must that be, which arises from the survey of a pious life? Surely, as much as christianity is nobler than a trade. South. We find ourselves obliged to go on in honest industry in our callings. Rogers. I cannot forbear warning you against endeavouring at wit in your sermons; because many of your calling have made themselves ridiculous by attempting it. I left no calling for this idle trade, 2. Proper station, or employment. Swift. Pope. The Gauls found the Roman senators ready to die with honour in their callings. Swift. 3. Class of persons united by the same employment or profession. it may be a caution to all christian churches and magistrates, not to impose celibacy on whole callings, and great multitudes of men or women, who cannot be supposable to have the gift of continence. Hammond. 4. Divine vocation; invitation or impulse to the true religion. Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure. 2 Peter. St. Peter was ignorant of the calling of the Gentiles. Hakerill on Providence. CA'LLIPERS. n. s. [Of this word I know not the etymology; nor does any thing more probable occur, than that, perhaps, the word is corrupted from clippers, instruments with which any thing is clipped, enclosed, or embraced.] Compasses with bowed shanks. Callipers measure the distance of any round, cylindrick, conical body; so that when workmen use them, they open the two points to their described width, and turn so much stuff off the intended place, till the two points of the callipers fit just over their work. Moxon. A CALLO'SITY. n. s. [callosité, Fr.] The surgeon ought to vary the diet of his patient, as he finds the fibres loosen too much, are too flaccid, and produce funguses; or as they harden, and produce callosities: in the first case, wine and spirituous liquors are useful, in the last hurtful. Arbuthnot on Diet. CAʼLLOUS. adj. [callus, Lat.] 1. Indurated; hardened; having the pores shut up. In progress of time, the ulcers became sinuous and callous, with induration of the glands. Wisem. 2. Hardened in mind; insensible. Licentiousness has so long passed for sharpness of wit, and greatness of mind, that the conscience is grown callous. L'Estrange. The wretch is drench'd too deep; The oftener we use the organs of touching, the more of these scales are formed, and the skin becomes the thicker, and so a callousness grows upon it. Cheyne. Sweet breathing Zephyrus did soft play Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair. Spenser. So shall the sea be calm unto us. Fonab. 2. Undisturbed; unruffled: applied to the passions. It is no ways congruous, that God should be frightening men into truth, who were made to be wrought upon by calm evidence, and gentle methods of persuasion. Alterbury. The queen her speech with calm attention hears, Her eyes restrain the silver-streaming tears.Pope. CALM. n. s. 1. Serenity; stillness; freedom from violent motion: used of the elements. It seemeth most agrecable to reason, that the waters rather stood in a quiet calm, than that they moved with any raging or overbearing violence. Raleigh. Every pilot Can steer the ship in calms; but he performs 2. Freedom from disturbance; quiet; repose: applied to the passions. Great and strange calms usually portend the most violent storms; and therefore, since storms and calms do always follow one another, certainly, of the two, it is much more eligible to have the storm first, and the calm afterwards: since a calm before a storm is commonly a peace of a man's own making; but a calm after a storm, a peace of God's. To CALM. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To still; to quiet. South. Neptune we find busy, in the beginning of the Aneis, to calm the tempest raised by olus. Dryden. 2. To pacify; to appease. breasts. Jesus, whose bare word checked the sea, as much exerts himself in silencing the tempests, and calming the intestine storms, within our Decay of Piety. Those passions, which seem somewhat calmed, may be entirely laid aseep, and never more awakened. CA'LMER. n. s. [from calm.] The person or thing which has the power of giving quiet. Walton. Angling was, after tedious study, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness. CA'LMLY. adv. [from calm.] 1. Without storms, or violence; serenely. In nature, things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place; so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. Bacon. His curled brows From on the gentle stream, which calmly flows. 2. Without passions; quietly. Denbam. The nymph did like the scene appear, Serenely pleasant, calmly fair; Soft fell her words, as flew the air. CALMNESS. n. s. [from calm.] Prior. 1. Tranquillity; serenity; not storminess. While the steep horrid roughness of the wood Strives with the gentle calmness of the flood. Denbam. 2. Mildness; freedom from passion. You have strong party, or defend yourself You would lay by those terrours of your face; Till calmness to your eyes you first restore, I am afraid, and I can beg no more. Dryden. CA'LMY. x. adj. [from calm.] Calm; peaceful. Not used. And now they nigh approached to the sted, Where as those mermaides dwelt: it was a still And calmy bay, on one side sheltered With the broad shadow of an hoary hill. Fairy Queen. CAʼLOMEL. n. s. [calomelas, a chymical word.] Mercury six times sublimed. Wiseman. He repeated lenient purgatives, with calomel, once in three or four days. CALORIFICK. adj. [calorificus, Latin.] That has the quality of producing heat; heating. Grea A calorifick principle is either excited within the heated body, or transferred to it, through any medium, from some other. Silver will grow hotter than the liquor it contains. CALOTTE. n. s. [French.] 1. A cap or coif, worn as an ecclesiastical ornament in France. 2. [In architecture.] A round cavity or. depressure, in form of a cap or cup, lathed and plaistered, used to diminish the rise or elevation of a chapel, cabinet, alcove, &c. CALOYERS. n. s. [ua] Monks of the Greek church. Harris. Madden on Boulter. Temp'rate as caloyers in their secret cells. CAʼLTROPS. n. s. [coltnæppe, Saxon.] 1. An instrument made with three spikes, so that which way soever it falls to the ground, one of them points upright, to wound horses feet. The ground about was thick sown with caltreps, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors. Dr. Addison's Account of Tangis. Allerbury. 2. A plant common in France, Spain, Though calved in the porch o' th' capitol. Shaks. The grassy clods now calv'd; now half appear'd The tawny lion, pawing to get free Milton. CALVES-SNOUT. [antirrhinum.] A plant; snapdragon. CALVILLE. n. s. [French.] A sort of apple. To CALUMNIATE. v. n. [calumnior, Lat.] To accuse falsely; to charge without just ground. Beauty, wit, high birth, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subject all To envious and calumniating time. Shakspeare. He mixes truth with falshood, and has not forgotten the rule of calumniating strongly, that something may remain. Dryden's Fab. Pref. Do I calumniate? thou ungrateful Vanoc!Perfidious prince!Is it a calumny To say that Gwendolen, betroth'd to Yver, A. Philips. To CALUMNIATE. v. a. To slander. One trade or art, even those that should be the most liberal, make it their business to disdain, and calumniate another. Spratt. CALUMNIA'TION. n. s. [from calumniate.] That which we call calumniation, is a malicious and false representation of an enemy's words or actions, to an offensive purpose. Ayliffe. CALUMNIA'TOR. n. s. [from calumniate.] A forger of accusation; a slanderer. He that would live clear of the envy and hatred of potent calumniators, must lay his finger upon his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. L'Estrange. At the same time that Virgil was celebrated by Gallus, we know that Bavius and Mævius were his declared foes and calumniators. Addison. CALUMNIOUS. adj. [from calumny.] Slanderous; falsely reproachful. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shakspeare. With calumnious art Of counterfeited truth, thus held their ears. Milton. CALX. n. s. [Latin.] Any thing that is rendered reducible to powder by burning. Gold, that is more dense than lead, resists peremptorily all the dividing power of fire; and will not be reduced into a calx, or lime, by such operation as reduces lead into it. Digby CA'LYCLE. n. s. [calyculus, Lat.] A small bud of a plant. Dict. CAMA'IEU. n. s. [from camachuia; which name is given by the orientals to the onyx, when, in preparing it, they find another colour.] 1. A stone with various figures and representations of landskips, formed by na ture. 2. [In painting.] A term used where there is only one colour, and where the lights and shadows are of gold, wrought on a golden or azure ground. This kind of work is chiefly used to represent basso relievos. Chambers. CA'MBER. n. s. [See CAMBERING.] A term among workmen. Camber, a piece of timber cut arching, so as, a weight considerable being set upon it, it may in length of time be induced to a straight. Moxoa. CA'MBERING. n. s. A word mentioned by Skinner, as peculiar to shipbuilders, who say that a place is cambering, when they mean arched. [From chambré, Fr.] CAMBRICK. n. s. [from Cambray, a city in Flanders, where it was principally made.] A kind of fine linen used for ruffles, women's sleeves, and caps. He hath ribbons of all the colours of the rainbow; inkles, caddises, cambricks, and lawns. Shakspeare. Rebecca had, by the use of a looking glass, and by the further use of certain attire, made of cambrick, upon her head, attained to an evil art. Tatler. Confed'rate in the cheat, they draw the throng, And cambrick handkerchiefs reward the song. CAME. The preterit of To come. Gay. Till all the pack came up, and ev'ry hound Tore the sad huntsman, grov'ling on the ground. Addison. CA'MEL. n. s. [camelus, Lat.] An animal very common in Arabia, Judea, and the neighbouring countries. One sort are large, and full of flesh, and fit to carry burdens of a thousand pounds weight, having one bunch upon their backs. Another have two bunches upon their backs, like a natural saddle, and are fit either for burdens, or men to ride on. A third kind are leaner, and of a smaller size, called dromedaries, because of their swiftness; which are generally used for riding by men of quality. Gamels have large solid feet, but not hard. Camels will continue ten or twelve days without eating or drinking; and keep water a long time in their stomach, for their refreshment. Calmet. Patient of thirst and toil, Son of the desart! even the camel feels, CAME LOPARD. n. s. [from camelus aud 1. A kind of stuff originally made by a mixture of silk and camels hair; it is now made with wool and silk. This habit was not of camels skin, nor any coarse texture of its hair, but rather some finer weave of camelot, grograin, or the like; inasmuch as these stuffs are supposed to be made of the hair of that animal. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 2. Hair cloth. Meantime the pastor shears their hoary beards, And eases of their hair the loaden herds: Their camelots warm in tents the soldier hold, And shield the shiv'ring mariner from cold. Dryden. CAMERA OBSCURA. [Latin.] An optical machine used in a darkened chamber, so that the light coming only through a double convex glass, objects exposed to daylight, and opposite to the glass, are represented inverted upon any white matter placed in the focus of the glass. Martin. CA'MERADE. n. s. [from camera, a chamber, Lat.] One that lodges in the same chamber; a bosom companion. By corruption we now use comrade. Camerades with him, and confederates in his design. Rymer CA'MERATED. adj. [cameratus, Lat.] Arched; roofed slopewise. CAMERA'TION. n. s. [cameratio, Lat.] A vaulting or arching. CAMISA DO. n. s. [camisa, a shirt, Ital. camisium, low Lat.] An attack made by soldiers in the dark; on which occasion they put their shirts outward, to be seen by each other. They had appointed the same night, whose darkness would have encreased the fear, to have given a camisado upon the English. Hayward. CA'MISATED. adj. [from camisa, a shirt.] Dressed with the shirt outward. CA'MLET. See CAMELOT. He had on him a-gown with wide sleeves, of a kind of water camlet, of an excellent azure colour. Bacon. CA'MMOCK. n. s. [cammoc, Saxon; ononis.] An herb; the same with petty whin, or restharrow. CAʼMOMILE. n. s. [anthemis.] A flɔwer. CAMO'YS. adj. [camus, Fr.] Flat; level; depressed. It is only used of the nose. Many Spaniards, of the race of Barbary Moors, though after frequent commixture, have not worn out the camoys nose unto this day. Brown. CAMP. n. s. camp, Fr. camp, Sax. from campus, Lat.] The order of tents, placed by armies when they keep the field. We use the phrase to pitch a camp, to encamp. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds. Shaksp. Next, to secure our camp and naval pow'rs, Raise an embattled wall with lofty tow'rs. Pope. To CAMP. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To encamp; to lodge in tents, for hostile purposes. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we would all sup together. Shakspeart. 2. To camp; to pitch a camp; to fix tents. CAMP-FIGHT. n. s. An old word for combat. For their trial by camp-fight, the accuser was, with the peril of his own body, to prove the accused guilty; and, by offering him his glove or gantlet, to challenge him to this trial. Hakewilh CAMPANIA.} "campania, Ital.] n. s. [campaigne, Fr. 1. A large, open, level tract of ground, without hills. In countries thinly inhabited, and especially in vast campanias, there are few cities, besides what grow by the residence of kings. Tempie. Those grateful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main, And fattens, as he runs, the fair campaign. Garth. 2. The time for which any army keeps the field, without entering into quarters. This might have hastened his march, which would have made a fair conclusion of the campaign. Clarendon. An Iliad rising out of one campaign. Addisen. CAMPA'NIFORM. adj. [of campana, a bell, and forma, Lat.] A term used of flowers which are in the shape of a bell. Harris. CAMPANULATE. adj. The same with campaniform. CAMPESTRAL. adj. [campestris, Lat.] Growing in fields. The mountain beech is the whitest; but the campestral, or wild beech, is blacker and more durable. Mortimer. CA'MPHIRE TREE. n. f. [camphora, Lat.] There are two sorts of this tree; one is a native of the isle of Borneo, from which the best camphire is taken, which is supposed to be a natural exsudation from the tree, produced in such places where the bark of the tree has been wounded or cut. The other sort is a native of Japan, which Dr. Kempfer describes to be a kind of bay, bearing black or purple berries, and from whence the inhabitants prepare their cam phire, by making a simple decoction of the root and wood of this tree, cut into small pieces; but this sort of campbire is, in value, eighty or an hundred times less than the true Bornean campoire. Miller. It is oftener used for the gum of this tree. CAMPHORATE. adj. [from camphora, Lat.] Impregnated with camphire. By shaking the saline and camphorate liquors together, we easily confounded them into one high-coloured liquor. Boyle. CAMPION. n. s. [lychnis, Lat.] A plant. CA'MUS. n. s. [probably from camisa, Lat. Athin dress, mentioned by Spenser And was yclad, for heat of scorching air, All in silken camus, lilly white, Purfled upon with many a folded plight. Fairy Q. CAN. n. s. [canne, Sax.] A cup; generally a cup made of metal, or some other matter than earth. I hate it as an unfill'd can. Shakspeare. One tree, the coco, affordeth stuff for housing, clothing, shipping, meat, drink, and can. Grew. His empty can, with ears half worn away, Was hung on high, to boast the triumph of the day. Dryden. To CAN. v. n. [konnen, Dutch. It is sometimes, though rarely, used alone; but is in constant use as an expression of the potential mood: as, I can do, thou canst do, I could do, thou couldest do. It has no other terminations.] 1. To be able; to have power. In place there is licence to do good and evil, whereof the latter is a curse: for, in evil, the best condition is, not to will; the second, not to can. Bacon. 3. If she can make me blest! She only can: Empire and wealth, and all she brings beside, Are but the train and trappings of her love. Dryd. It is distinguished from may, as power from permission; I can do it, it is in my power; I may do it, it is allowed me: but in poetry they are confounded. 4. Can is used of the person with the verb active, where may is used of the thing, with the verb passive; as, I can do it, it may or can be done. CANAILLE. n. S. [French.] The lowest people; the dregs; the lees; the offscouring of the people: a French term of reproach. CANA'L. n. s. [canalis, Lat.] 1. A basin of water in a garden. The walks and long canals reply. Pope. 2. Any tract or course of water made by art, as the canals in Holland. 3. [In anatomy.] A conduit or passage through which any of the juices of the body flow. CA'NAL-COAL. n. s. A fine kind of coal, dug up in England. Even our canal-coal nearly equals the foreign jet. Woodward. CANALICULATED. adj. [from canaliculatus. Lat.] Channelled; made like a pipe or gutter. Dict. CANARY. n. s. [from the Canary islands.] 1. Wine brought from the Canaries, now called sack. I will to my honest knight Falstaff, and drink canary with him.I think I shall drink in pipe wine first with him; I'll make him dance. and nowhere else; but now bred in se veral parts of Europe, particularly Germany. Of singing birds they have linnets, goldfinches, ruddocks, canary birds, blackbirds, thrushes, and divers other. Carew. To CANCEL. v. a. [canceller, Fr. from cancellis notare, to mark with crosslines.] 1. To cross a writing. 2. To efface; to obliterate in general. That long day's Labour doth at last defray; Roscommon. Southerne I pass the bills, my lords, For cancelling your debts. CANCELLATED. particip. adj. [from cancel.] Cross-barred; marked with lines crossing each other. The tail of the castor is almost bald, thougn the beast is very hairy; and cancellated, with some resemblance to the scales of fishes. Grew. CANCELLATION. n. s. [from cancel.] According to Bartolus, is an expunging or wiping out of the contents of an instrument, by two lines drawn in the manner of a cross. Ayliffe. CANCER. n. s. [cancer, Lat.] 1 A crabfish. 2. The sign of the summer solstice. When now no more th'alternate Twins are fir'd, And Cancer reddens with the solar blaze, Short is the doubtful empire of the night. Thoms -3. A virulent swelling, or sore, not to be cured. Any of these three may degenerate into a schirrus, and that schirrus into a cancer. Wiseman. As when a cancer on the body feeds, And gradual death from limb to limb proceeds; So does the chilness to each vital part Spread by degrecs, and creeps into the heart. Addison To CA'NCERATE. v. n [from cancer] To grow cancerous; to become a cancer. But striking his fist upon the point of a nail in the wall, his hand cancerated, he fell into a fever, and soon after died on't. L'Estrange. CANCERATION. n. s. [from cancerate.] A growing cancerous. CANCEROUS. adj. [from cancer ] Having the virulence and qualities of a cancer. How they are to be treated when they are strumous, schirrous, or cancerous, you may see in their proper places. Wiseman. CA'NCEROUSNESS. n. s. [from cancerous.] The state of being cancerous. CAN'CRINE. adj. [from cancer.] Having the qualities of a crab. CA'NDENT, adj. [candens, Lat.] Hot; in the highest degree of heat, next to fusion. If a wire be heated only at one end, according as that end is cooled upward or downward, it respectively acquires a verticity, as we have de clared in wires totally candent. Brown. CA'NDICANT. adj. [candicans, Latin.] Growing white; whitish. Dict. |