Stalagmite: alternatives and connections

An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wood…

A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medic…

The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone an…

Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Containing caverns.

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree…

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.

The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, compos…

A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bot…

To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the ma…

A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from differ…

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.

Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abil…

Material for the construction of a floor or floors.