of fish and vegetables.

CALAMUS. _See_ RATTAN.

CALANCA. A creek or cove on Italian and Spanish coasts.

CALAVANCES [_Phaseolus vulgaris._ _Haricot_, Fr.] Small beans sometimes
used for soup, instead of pease.

CALCULATE, TO. This word, though disrated from respectability by
American misuse, signified to foretell or prophesy; it is thus used by
Shakspeare in the first act of "Julius Caesar." To calculate the ship's
position, either from astronomical observations or rate of the log.

CALENDAR. A distribution of time. (_See_ ALMANAC.)

CALENDAR-TIME. On which officers' bills are drawn.

CALF. A word generally applied to the young of marine mammalia, as the
whale.--_Calf_, in the Arctic regions, a mass of floe ice breaking from
under a floe, which when disengaged rises with violence to the surface
of the water; it differs from a tongue, which is the same body kept
fixed beneath the main floe. The iceberg is formed by the repeated
freezing of thawed snow running down over the slopes, until at length
the wave from beneath and weight above causes it to break off and fall
into the sea, or, as termed in Greenland, to calve. Thus, berg, is
fresh-water ice, the work of years. The floe, is salt water frozen
suddenly each winter, and dissolving in the summer.

CALF, OR CALVA. A Norwegian name, also used in the Hebrides, for islets
lying off islands, and bearing a similar relation to them in size that a
calf does to a cow. As the Calf at Mull and the Calf of Man.

CALFAT. The old word for caulking. [_Calfater_, Fr.; probably from
_cale_, wedge, and _faire_, to make.] To wedge up an opening with any
soft material, as oakum. [_Calafatear_, Sp.]

CALIBER, OR CALIBRE. The diameter of the bore of a gun, cannon, shot, or
bullet. A ship's caliber means the known weight her armament represents.

CALIPASH. The upper shell of a turtle.

CALIPEE. The under shell of a turtle.

CALIVER. A hand-gun or arquebuss; probably the old name of the
matchlock or carabine, precursors of the modern fire-lock, or Enfield
rifle. (_See_ CALABASS.)

CALL. A peculiar silver pipe or whistle, used by the boatswain and his
mates to attract attention, and summon the sailors to their meals or
duties by various strains, each of them appropriated to some particular
purpose, such as hoisting, heaving, lowering, veering away, belaying,
letting go a tackle-fall, sweeping, &c. This piping is as attentively
observed by sailors, as the bugle or beat of drum