calender

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A machine in which paper or cloth is made smooth and glossy by being pressed through rollers.
2. v. To press (paper or cloth) in the rollers of such a machine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To press in a calender, as cloth or paper.
2. n. A lark. See calandra, 1.
3. n. A weevil.
4. n. One of an order of dervishes founded in the fourteenth century by an Andalusian Arab named Yusuf, who was expelled from the order of Bektashis on account of his extreme arrogance. The Calenders are wanderers who preach in the market-places and live by alms. Though the title Calender asserts for its bearers a life of great purity, the members of this order, even before the death of its founder, fell into the grossest licentiousness and debauchery, and have not hesitated at assassination. They hold that salvation is as little affected by vice and crime as by virtue and holiness, and that sin stains the body only and can be removed by ablutions.
5. n. An obsolete corrupt form of coliander for coriander.

Wiktionary

1. n. common misspelling of calendar.
2. n. A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc, a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
3. n. One who pursues the business of calendering.
4. n. One of a wandering, mendicant Sufic order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes, founded in the 13th century by an Arab name Yusuf.
5. v. To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper etc, as in the homonymous machine.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
2. n. One who pursues the business of calendering.
3. v. To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.
4. n. One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets
2. n. a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers