a. [ L. callidus, fr. callere to be thick-skinned, to be hardened, to be practiced, fr. callum, callus, callous skin, callosity, callousness. ] Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calliditas. ] Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a., [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;; pref. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;- (fr. kalo`s beautiful) + gra`fein to write; cf. F. calligraphique. ] Of or pertaining to calligraphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A calligrapher [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;: cf. F. calligraphie. ] Fair or elegant penmanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of insects comprising the cinnabar moths.
Syn. -- genus Callimorpha. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of crustaceans comprising the New World blue crabs.
Syn. -- genus Callinectes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament. [ 1913 Webster ]

The frequent calling and meeting of Parlaiment. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who hath . . . called us with an holy calling. 2 Tim. i. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give diligence to make yior calling . . . sure. 2 Pet. i. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

The humble calling of ter female parent. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment. [ 1913 Webster ]

To impose celibacy on wholy callings. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Title; appellation; name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son
His youngest son, and would not change that calling. Shak.

Syn. -- Occupation; employment; business; trade; profession; office; engagement; vocation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprising the dragonets.
Syn. -- family Callionymidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. Calliope, Gr. Kallio`ph, lit, the beautiful-voiced; pref. kalli- (from kalo`s beautiful) + 'o`ps, 'opo`s, voice. ] 1. (Class. Myth.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) One of the asteroids. See Solar. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus comprising the Asian coral snakes.
Syn. -- genus Calliophis, Callophis, genus Callophis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. pref. kalli- (fr. kalo`s beautiful) + 'o`psis appearance. ] (Bot.) A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to Coreopsis tinctoria of Arkansas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Calipash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Calipee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Calipers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprising the blowflies.
Syn. -- family Calliphoridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers.
Syn. -- genus Callirhoe. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of lizards including the the zebra-tailed lizard.
Syn. -- genus Callisaurus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. callere to be insensible + E. section. ] Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. B. G. Wilder.

n. a genus of plants having only one species, an erect Asiatic herb with large flowers.
Syn. -- genus Callistephus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ a., n. } See Calisthenic, Calisthenics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprising the marmosets.
Syn. -- family Callithricidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the Callithricidae; the true marmosets.
Syn. -- genus Callithrix. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari. [ U. S. ] [ Also spelled callathump. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs; the cypress pines.
Syn. -- genus Callitris. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Lily family Liliaceae, but not widely accepted; it includes the genus Hemerocallis.
Syn. -- family Hemerocallidaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; day + ka`llos beauty. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Rascallion. ] A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. [ Colloq. ] Howitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Rascal ] A low, mean wretch; a rogue; same as rascal, n.. 2; now disused, replaced by rapscalion. [ archaic ] [ Written also rascalion. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. escalone, eschaloingne, L. caepa Ascalonia onion of Ascalon; caepa onion + Ascalonius of Ascalon, fr. Ascalo Ascalon, a town in Palestine. Cf. Shallot. ] 1. (Bot.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any onion which does not “bottom out, ” but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Teocallis [ Mexican. ] Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

And Aztec priests upon their teocallis
Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any object whose name is forgotten, or not known. [ Also spelled whatchamacallit. ]
Syn. -- thingumbob, doohickey, dingus, whatsis, what-do-you-call-it. [ PJC ]

n. Any object whose name is forgotten, or not known. [ Also spelled whachamacallit. ]
Syn. -- thingumbob, doohickey, dingus, whatsis, what-do-you-call-it. [ PJC ]