The meaning of Caloric and additional information.

Caloric(a.) Of or pertaining to caloric.

Caloric(n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.

Caloricity(n.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.