Cajeput Oil, s. Is highly stimulating; it is given internally as an antispasmodic, and applied as an external remedy for strains and rheumatism: it may be diluted with olive oil.
Calamine, (Lapis calaminaris,) s. A kind of fossil bituminous earth, which, being mixed with copper, changes it into brass.
Calcination, s. Such a management of bodies by fire as renders them reducible to powder: chemical pulverization.
Calcine, v. To burn in the fire to a calx or substance easily reduced to powder.
Calculus, s. The stone in the bladder.
Calf, s. The young of a cow or deer; the thick, plump, bulbous part of the leg.
Calibre, s. The bore, or diameter of the barrel of a gun.
Calidris, (Illiger,) s. Sanderling, a genus thus characterised:—
Bill of middle length, slender, straight, soft, flexible throughout; compressed from the base; at the point depressed, flattened, and broader than in the middle, the nasal groove being prolonged towards the point; nostrils at the sides slit lengthwise; legs slender, three toes directed forwards, and almost entirely divided; wings of middle size, the first quill the longest.—Montagu.
Caliver, s. obs. A hand-gun, or harquebuse; an old musket.