CALCAR

Etymology 1

Noun

calcar (plural calcars)

A small oven or furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.

Etymology 2

Noun

calcar (plural calcars)

(botany, anatomy) A spur-like projection.

Source: Wiktionary


Cal"car, n. Etym: [L. calcaria lime kiln, fr. calx, calcis, lime. See Calx.] (Glass manuf.)

Definition: A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.

Cal"car, n.; L. pl. Calcaria. Etym: [L., a pur, as worn on the heel, also the spur of a cock, fr. calx, calcis, the heel.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

3. (Anat.) (a) A spur, or spurlike prominence. (b) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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