Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAL'U-MET, n.

Among the aboriginals of America, a pipe, used for smoking tobacco, whose bowl is usually of soft red marble, and the tube a long reed, ornamented with feathers. The calumet is used as a symbol or instrument of peace and war. To accept the calumet, is to agree to the terms of peace, and to refuse it, is to reject them. The calumet of peace is used to seal or ratify contracts and alliances, to receive strangers kindly, and to travel with safety. The calumet of war, differently made, is used to proclaim war.

CA-LUM'NI-ATE, v.i.

To charge falsely and knowingly with a crime or offense; to propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another.

CA-LUM'NI-ATE, v.t. [See Calumny.]

To accuse or charge one falsely, and knowingly, with some crime, offense, or something disreputable; to slander.

CA-LUM'NI-A-TED, pp.

Slandered; falsely and maliciously accused of what is criminal, immoral, or disgraceful.

CA-LUM'NI-A-TING, ppr.

Slandering.

CA-LUM-NI-A'TION, n.

False accusation of a crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.

CA-LUM'NI-A-TOR, n.

One who slanders; one who falsely and knowingly accuses another of a crime or offense, or maliciously propagates false accusations or reports.

CA-LUM'NI-A-TO-RY, a.

Slanderous. – Montagu.

CA-LUM'NI-OUS, a.

Slanderous; bearing or implying calumny; injurious to reputation.

CA-LUM'NI-OUS-LY, adv.

Slanderously.

CA-LUM'NI-OUS-NESS, n.

Slanderousness. – Bp. Morton.

CAL'UM-NY, n. [L. calumnia; Fr. calomnie; It. calumnia. If m is radical, this word may be allied to calamity, both from the sense of falling upon, rushing, or throwing on. If m is not radical, this word may be the Gothic holon, to calumniate, Saxon holan, to rush upon. The word is found in Ir. guilimne, calumny, guilimnighim, to calumniate or reproach.]

Slander; false accusation of a crime or offense, knowingly or maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; false representation of facts reproachful to another, made by design, and with knowledge of its falsehood; sometimes followed by on. Neglected calumny soon expires. – Murphy's Tacitus.

CAL'VA-RY, n. [L. calvaria, from calva, a skull or scalp; Ir. calb, the head; Sp. calvario, calva; It. calvo.]

1. A place of skulls; particularly, the place where Christ was crucified on a small hill west of Jerusalem. In Catholic countries, a kind of chapel raised on a hillock near a city, as a place of devotion, in memory of the place where our Savior suffered.
2. In heraldry, a cross, so called, set upon steps, resembling the cross on which our Savior was crucified.
3. In architecture, a chapel, erected by Romanists, on a hill, in which are represented the mysteries of Christ's death. – Elmes.

CALVE, v.i. [càv; from calf; Sax. calfian.]

1. To bring forth young, as a cow.
2. In a metaphorical sense, and sometimes by way of reproach, as when applied to the human race, to bring forth; to produce.

CAL'VER, v.i.

To shrink by cutting, and not fall to pieces. [Not in use.] – Cotton.

CAL'VER, v.t.

To cut in slices. [Not in use.] – B. Jonson.

CALVES'-SNOUT, n.

A plant, snap-dragon, Antirrhinum.

CAL'VILLE, n. [Fr.]

A sort of apple.

CAL'VIN-ISM, n.

The theological tenets or doctrines of Calvin, who was born in Picardy in France, and in 1535 chosen professor of divinity, and minister of a church in Geneva. The distinguishing doctrines of this system are, original sin, particular election and reprobation, particular redemption, effectual grace in regeneration, or a change of heart by the spirit of God, justification by free grace, perseverance of the saints, and the Trinity.

CAL'VIN-IST, n.

A follower of Calvin; one who embraces the theological doctrines of Calvin.

CAL-VIN-IST'IC, or CAL-VIN-IST'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to Calvin, or to his opinions in theology.

CAL'VIN-IZE, v.t.

To convert to Calvinism.

CALV-ISH, a. [from calf.]

Like a calf. [More properly, Calfish.] – Sheldon.

CAL'VI-TY, n.

Baldness.

CALX, n. [plur. calxes or calces. L. calx; Sax. cealc, a stone, calculus, and chalk; D. kalk; G. kalk; Sw. kalck; Dan. kalk; Fr. chaux. The same word signifies chalk, lime, mortar, and the heel, and from that is formed calculus, a little stone. The word then signifies primarily, a lump, or clod, or hard mass, and is allied to callus. If calx is from χαλιξ, the usual orthography was not observed by the Latins. See Calculate.]

Properly lime or chalk; but more appropriately, the substance of a metal or mineral which remains after being subjected to violent heat, burning, or calcination, solution by acids, or detonation by niter, and which is or may be reduced to a fine powder. Metallic calxes are now called oxyds. They are heavier than the metal from which they are produced, being combined with oxygen. – Coxe. Encyc. Calx nativa, native calx, a kind of marly earth, of a dead whitish color, which, in water bubbles or hisses and without burning will make a cement, like lime or gypsum. Calx viva, quick lime, is lime not slaked.