calque

t. See calk2. calsonst (kal's onz), n. pl. [Also cal sounds, cal zoons; They wear. a smocke of callico.; under this, a paire of cal sounds of the same, which reach to their ancles. Sandys, Travels, p. 63. The nests of species of Calotermes are the most incomplete; they only gnaw pa ages in wood, which mainly run in the direction of the axis of the tree. There is no special place for the queen. Claus , Zool. (trans.), p. 560. Calo trop is (ka-lot'rō-pis), n. [NL. (in allusion to the keel of the flower), καλός , beautiful, + τρόπις, a ship's keel, mudar and yercum (names also given to the plants themselves), is a medicine famous among Oriental physicians. It is employed in many diseases, especially in dysentery, as an alterative tonic and diaphoretic, and as a substitute for ipecac. C. procera ranges from India to the Cape Verd islands, and C. gig an tea from India to Borneo and China. The silky fiber of the caltetepon (kal-te-tep'on), n. [Mex.] A name latter is finer in quality, and is used for the robes of the native princes, for bowstrings, and for fishing-lines and -nets, as it is almost indestructible in water. The wood of both species is made into charcoal for gunpowder, the acrid milky juice mixed with salt is used to remove hair from hides, and the hairs of the seeds are employed for stuffing mattre es. The better sort of that sex here wear linen drawers or calzoons. Sir T. Herbert , Travels in Africa, p. 115.