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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