Index of English words, starting with "ca"

(1) - Calix (n.) A cup. See Calyx.

(1) - Calk (v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
(2) - Calk (v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
(3) - Calk (n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
(4) - Calk (n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.
(5) - Calk (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
(6) - Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
(7) - Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

(1) - Calker (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
(2) - Calker (n.) One who calks.

(1) - Call (n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.
(2) - Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
(3) - Call (v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
(4) - Call (v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
(5) - Call (v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
(6) - Call (v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
(7) - Call (v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
(8) - Call (v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.
(9) - Call (v. t.) To invoke; to appeal to.
(10) - Call (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
(11) - Call (v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
(12) - Call (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
(13) - Call (v. i.) To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
(14) - Call (n.) See Assessment, 4.
(15) - Call (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
(16) - Call (n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
(17) - Call (n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
(18) - Call (n.) A divine vocation or summons.
(19) - Call (n.) Vocation; employment.
(20) - Call (n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
(21) - Call (n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
(22) - Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
(23) - Call (n.) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
(24) - Call (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
(25) - Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
(26) - Call (v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request.