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Calcar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In glass works, a kind of oven, or reverberating furnace, used for the calcination of sand and salt of potash, and converting them into frit.

Calcar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.

2. A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

3. A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

4. A spur, or spurlike prominence.

5. A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

Calcar Encyclopedia Britannica

CALCAR, or Kalcker, John de (1499-1546), an eminent painter, born at Calcar, in the duchy of Cleves, in 1499. He was a disciple of Titian at Venice, and perfected himself by studying Raffaelle. He imitated those masters with such success as to deceive the most skilful critics. Among his various pieces is a Nativity, representing the angels around the infant Christ, which he arranged so that the light emanated wholly from the child. lie died at Naples in 1546.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 4, p. 653
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Calcarate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Furnished with a spur; as a calcarate corol, in larksupr; a calcarate nectary, a nectary resembling a cocks spur.

Calcarate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Calcarated

Calcarated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred.

2. Armed with a spur.

Calcareo-argillaceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.

Calcareo-bituminous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen.

Calcareo-siliceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths.

Calcareous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.

Calcareousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quality of being calcareous.

Calcaria [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Calcar

Calcariferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lime-yielding; calciferous

Calcarine [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.

Calcarious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Partaking of the nature of lime; having the qualities of lime; as calcarious earth or stone.