Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
calcar .
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Examples
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Eius nobis ostendebant, et cultros, ephipiáque, et calcaria quibus vsum fuisse asserebant, in peragrando toto ferè terrarum orbe, vt clariùs testatur eius
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Eius nobis ostendebant, et cultros, ephipi醧ue, et calcaria quibus vsum fuisse asserebant, in peragrando toto fer� terrarum orbe, vt clari鵶 testatur eius
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_ Closely resembling the female, but with the legs black; the posterior femora incrassate, the tibiæ narrow at their base and broadly dilated at their apex, which, as well as the calcaria, are pale testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Thorax: the metathorax densely clothed with yellowish-white pubescence; the legs with glittering white hairs, the calcaria white; wings brown with their base hyaline.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Thorax: the metathorax densely clothed with silvery pubescence, beneath, at the sides, and also the legs with scattered silvery hairs, the calcaria white; the tegulæ shining; the wings subhyaline with the nervures dark fuscous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Thorax: the prothorax subelongate, narrowed anteriorly; the wings subhyaline, their apex clouded; the intermediate and posterior tibiæ with a double row of spines; all the tarsi simple; the calcaria stout and elongate.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Eius nobis ostendebant, et cultros, ephipiáque, et calcaria quibus vsum fuisse asserebant, in peragrando toto ferè terrarum orbe, vt clariùs testatur eius Itinerarium, quod typis etiam excusum passim habetur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Sed L I C H £ N fronde calcaria pulpofa, miniau» laciniata; lobis linearibus. n ALt.
Spicilegium florae Goettingensis: plantas inprimis cryptogamicas Hercyniae ... 1778
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Not a Udman Stadium to the Weft, there is a vtrf uncouth Detlivity, arid a Pit, where, no doubt, was the Fornex calcaria\ to make Lime for building thfe Caftle; the Soil being Chalk, and the Field called to this Day, according to the 'Saxon Tranflation,
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Stimuli, vel calcaria, quibus equus ad curfum incitatur.
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