Calcar

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1. Noun

A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.

2. Noun

A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

3. Noun

A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

4. Noun

A spur, or spurlike prominence.

5. Noun

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
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