Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CALC'U-LA-TING, ppr.

Computing; reckoning; adapting by design; adjusting.

CALC-U-LA'TION, n.

1. The art, practice or manner of computing by numbers. The use of numbers, by addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, for the purpose of arriving at a certain result. Thus computations in astronomy and geometry for making tables of numbers are called calculations. Encyc.
2. The result of an arithmetical operation; computation; reckoning. Hooker.
3. Estimate formed in the mind by comparing the various circumstances and facts which influence its determination.

CALC'U-LA-TIVE, a.

Pertaining to calculation; tending to calculate. Burke.

CALC'U-LA-TOR, n.

One who computes or reckons; one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.

CALC'U-LA-TO-RY, a.

Belonging to calculation. Johnson.

CALC'ULE, n.

Reckoning; computation. [Obs.] Howel.

CAL'CU-LI, n. [plur. of Calculus, which see.]

CALC'U-LOUS, a. [Supra.]

1. Stony; gritty; hard like stone; as, a calculous concretion. Brown.
2. Affected with the gravel or stone; as, a calculous person. Sharp.

CALC'U-LUS, n. [L. See Calculate.]

1. The stone in the bladder or kidneys.
2. In mathematics; Differential calculus, is the arithmetic of the infinitely small differences of variable quantities; the method of differencing quantities, or of finding an infinitely small quantity, which, being taken infinite times, shall be equal to a given quantity. This coincides with the doctrine of fluxions. Encyc.
3. Exponential calculus, is a method of differencing exponential quantities; or of finding and summing up the differentials or moments of exponential quantities; or at least of bringing them to geometrical constructions. Encyc.
4. Integral calculus, is a method of integrating or summing up moments or differential quantities; the inverse of the differential calculus. Encyc.
5. Literal calculus, is specious arithmetic or algebra. Encyc.

CAL'DRON, n. [cawl'dron; Old Fr. chauldron, now chaudron; Basque, galda, to heat; galdarea, a great kettle; It. caldaia, or caldaro, a caldron; caldo, heat and hot; Sp. calda, heat; caldear, to heat, to weld iron; caldera, a caldron; Port. caldeira, a caldron; L. caldarium, id.; calda, hot water; calidus, hot; from caleo, to be hot. This is from the root of Eng. scald.]

A large kettle or boiler, of copper, or other metal, furnished with a movable handle or bail, with which to hang it on a chimney hook. Addison.

CA-LECHE', n.

See CALASH.

CAL-E-DO'NI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Caledonia, an ancient name of Scotland. The termination ia, signifies a country, and was added by the Romans. Caledon signifies probably, the hill or town of the Gaels, or Caels, the primitive inhabitants.

CAL-E-DO'NI-AN, n.

A native of Caledonia, now Scotland.

CAL-E-FA'CIENT, a. [See Calefaction, Calefy.]

Warming; heating.

CAL-E-FA'CIENT, n.

That which warms or heats.

CAL-E-FAC'TION,

1. n . [L. calefactio, from calefacio, to make warm. See Calefy.]
2. The act or operation of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by the communication of heat from other bodies. Encyc.
3. The state of being heated. Johnson.

CAL-E-FAC'TIVE, or CAL-E-FAC'TO-RY, a. [See Calefaction.]

That makes warm or hot; that communicates heat.

CAL'E-FY, v.i. [L. calefio, to become warm, or hot; from caleo and fio or facio.]

To grow hot or warm; to be heated. Brown.

CAL'E-FY, v.t.

To make warm or hot. Johnson.

CAL'EN-DAR, n. [L. calendarium, an account book. See Calends.]

1. A register of the year, in which the months, weeks, and days are set down in order, with the feasts observed by the church, &c.; an almanac. It was so named from the Roman Calendæ, the name given to the first day of the month, and written, in large letters, at the head of each month. [See Calends.] Encyc.
2. A list of prisoners in the custody of the sherif: Eng.
3. An orderly table or enumeration of persons or things. Encyc.
4. In Congress, a list of bills prepared for the action of that body. Calendar-month, a solar month as it stands in almanacs.

CAL'EN-DAR, v.t.

To enter or write in a calendar.

CAL'EN-DER, n.

A machine or hot press, used in manufactories to press cloths, for the purpose of making them smooth, even and glossy, laying the nap, watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two thick rollers or cylinders, placed between boards or planks, the lower one being fixed, the upper one movable, and loaded with a great weight. Encyc.

CAL'EN-DER, v.t. [Fr. calendrer; Sp. calentar, to heat, to urge or press forward; from caleo, to be hot.]

To press between rollers, for the purpose of making smooth, glossy and wavy; as woolen and silk stuffs and linens.

CAL'EN-DER-ED, pp.

Made smooth.

CAL'EN-DER-ING, ppr.

Making smooth and glossy by being pressed between rollers.