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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The crumbly residue left after a mineral or metal has been calcined or roasted.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Lime or chalk.
  2. n. The ashy substance which remains after metals, minerals, etc., have been calcined. Metallic calxes are now generally called oxids.
  3. n. Broken and refuse glass, which is restored to the pots.
  4. n. In anatomy, the heel: commonly used in the Latin genitive (calcis), as in os calcis, the heel-bone or calcaneum.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston.
  2. n. the oxide left after calcination of a metal.
  3. n. calcium oxide

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete Quicklime.
  2. n. The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.
  3. n. Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

Etymologies

  1. From Latin calx ("lime"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Latin, lime, limestone, pebble, from Greek khalix, pebble. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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