Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin calidus ("hot"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And was there frostwork about and thick weather and hice, soon calid, soon frozen, cold on warm but moistly dry, and a boatshaped blanket of bruma air-sighs and hellstohns and flammballs and vodashouts and every — thing to please everybody? —”
“We had a short trip from Miami to Cartagena and we started feeling the calid breeze as soon as we stepped out of the plane.”
“Woad for the rithin half a mile of Northampton is a dyers is cnltivated in this part j but the Be Go'hic (tru£lure, calid Queen*s Crofs, county ia not diilinguifhed for manufac - rtficd by £dward 1. in meniury of his tures, excepting fome of Terges, ta«i ..”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘calid’.
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Miscellany, pt. c
chokedamp, clitter, circumbendibus, catmint, cacoëpy, co-feoffee, caribou, conturbation, chalicothere, calamus, cochineal, cincture and 168 more...
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Words 2011
New words that I've read in 2011
mendacity, drogue, caisson, fakement, abattoir, specious, barbican, inimical, argot, wot, sotto voce, nonce and 76 more...
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Gormenghast
Words from Mervyn Peake's trilogy.
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Out of Gormenghast
Words from Mervyn Peake's books.
recrudescent, propinquital, circumfusion, roisterer, calid, poissonnier, rôtier, légumier, saucier, cretinous, palliative, spindrift and 48 more...
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notable
tintype, filature, cyanotype, haptic, haecceity, kenspeck, plex, moreish, damask, cerise, calid, calamus and 20 more...
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words that end in -id
vellid, tabid, rapid, sapid, insipid, ibid, valid, acrid, arid, balanid, calid, felid and 35 more...
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Words I had to Look Up. Srsly.
These are words I've encountered reading that I've had to look up on-the-spot.
execrable, ex cathedra, liminal, elegiac, synecdoche, desuetude, disingenuous, parallelopiped, vulpine, probity, amanuensis, mustelid and 67 more...
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Gormenghastocabulary
Words I especially enjoyed while reading Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.
recrudescent, propinquital, calid, rissoles, stenching, crapulous, pullulation, spilths, lambent, rabous, byre, lapsury and 33 more...
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Words I saw in books
Pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?
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atmospheric
calid, fug, lugubrious, sere, stenching
Tweets
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Casey "The wall of the vast room, which were steaming with calid moisture, were built with gray slabs of stone and were the personal concern of a company of eighteen men known as the 'Gray Scrubbers.'" From Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. Feb 12, 2011
she adj., Warm, tepid; hot. Cf. gelid. Aug 12, 2008