Calcar(n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
Calcar(n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
Calcar(n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
Calcar(n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence.
Calcar(n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
Calcarate(a.) Alt. of Calcarated
Calcarated(a.) Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred.
Calcarated(a.) Armed with a spur.
Calcareous(a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
Calcareousness(n.) Quality of being calcareous.
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