Thesaurus: calcar

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1. n. A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
2. n. A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
3. n. A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
4. n. A spur, or spurlike prominence.
5. n. A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
6. A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure. 1. (Bot.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. 2. (Zoöl.) 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.
7. A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for thecalcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.
8. n. A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. n. A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. n. A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. n. A spur, or spurlike prominence. n. A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.