Vocabulary : Calyon to Camail

Calyon : Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
Calypso : A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68 N.
Calyptra : A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.
Calyptriform : Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher.
Calyx : The covering of a flower. See Flower. ;; A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.

Calyxes : of Calyx ;; of Nematocalyx
Calzoons : Drawers.
Cam : A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. ;; A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together. ;; A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts. ;; A ridge or mound of earth. ;; Crooked.
Camaieu : A cameo. ;; Painting in shades of one color; monochrome.
Camail : A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece. ;; A hood of other material than mail; ;; a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.

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