callidity (kaliditi)

[L. callid it a ( t- ) s, 2. Fresh; in proper season: applied chiefly to fish: as, caller herrings. [Scotch.] call esthetics (kal-es-thet'iks), n. [ call i- ( καλλι- , καλός , beautiful) + esthetics .] A term proposed by Whewell for esthetics , the science of the perception of the beautiful, the term esthetics to be extended to perception in καλός , beautiful, + dim. term. -ίδιον .] Agenus of general. Krauth, Vocab. Phil. Also spelled callæsthetics. callett (kal'et), n. [Also written call at, callot; F. caillette, a frivolous babbling woman, dim. of caille, a quail: see quail2.] 1. A tattling or talkative woman; a scold; a go ip. Come hither, you old callet , you tattling huswife. Gas coigne. 2. A trull; a drab; a lewd woman. He call'd her whore; a beggar, in his drink, Could not have laid such terms upon his callet . Shak ., Othello, iv. 2. call a i nite (ka-lā'nīt), n. [ καλλάϊνος , καλάϊ- callett (kal'et), v. i. [ callet , n.] To rail; To hear her in her spleen Callet like a butter-quean. R. Bra thwaite , Care's Cure, in Paned one. Scolding: as, a callet ing (kal'et-ing), p . a . callet ing wife. [North. Eng.] calley-stone (kal'i-ston), n. [ calley , prob. connected with calliard , + stone.] In coal- mining , a kind of hard sandstone, more or le argillaceous. See ganister . [Yorkshire, Eng.]