Calve, v. To bring forth a calf, spoken of a cow. To drop a fawn.
Calumba, s. A plant. The root is a good tonic and stomachic.
Calx, s. Any thing rendered reducible to powder by burning.
Camber, s. A piece of timber cut archwise. The bending of a gun-stock.
Camlet, or Camblet, s. A kind of stuff, originally made by a mixture of silk and camel’s hair; it is now made with wool and silk. It is much used for shooting jackets, as it resists water well, and is light and strong.
Camphor, s. A kind of resin produced by a chemical process from the camphor tree. The tree from which camphor is extracted.
The following description of the properties of camphor was given me by an old M. D. Camphor is at once an emollient, an antispasmodic, an anodyne, a febrifuge, and a sedative.—Condition of Hunters.
Canary, s. Wine brought from the Canaries; sack.
Canary Bird, (Fringilla canaria, Linn.) s. A much admired singing bird.
In length this beautiful species is about five inches and a half; the bill pale flesh-colour, passing into reddish white; eyes chestnut brown; the whole plumage of a rich, deep primrose colour, inclining to yellow; edge of the quills sometimes yellowish white; legs and feet the same colour as the bill. The female is distinguished from the male by the plumage being of a paler colour; the yellow round the bill, eye, and on the breast and edge of the wing, being also of a paler yellow; she is likewise rather larger and less slender in form towards the tail.