calcar Meaning, Definition & Usage

Cal"car noun
Etymology
L. calcaria lime kiln, fr. calx, calcis, lime. See Calx.
Definitions
  1. (Glass manuf.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.
Cal"car noun
Etymology
L., a pur, as worn on the heel, also the spur of a cock, fr. calx, calcis, the heel.
Wordforms
plural Calcaria
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
  2. (Zoöl.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
  3. (Anat.) (a) A spur, or spurlike prominence. (b) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

Webster 1913