Chapter Caligula's Horse to Calumet of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

dubium vocare. ”
   To call over the coals. (See Coals.)
   To call to account. To demand an explanation; to reprove.

Called He is called to his account. He is removed by death. Called to the judgment seat of God to give an account of his deeds, whether they be good, or whether they be evil. (See page 202, col. 1, Calling.)

Callabre or Calaber. A Calabrian fur. Ducange says, “At Chichester the `priest vicars' and at St. Paul's the `minor canons' wore a calabre amyce;” and Bale, in his Image of Both Churches, alludes to the “fair rochets of Raines (Rennes), and costly grey amicës of calaber and cats' tails.”

“The Lord Mayor and those aldermen above the chair ought to have their coats furred with grey amis, and also with changeable taffeta; and those below the chair with calabre and with green taffeta.”- Hutton: New View of London.

Caller Herrings Fresh herrings. Hence “caller air.” (Anglo-Saxon, calian, to cool.)

Calligraphy (The art of ). Writing very minutely and yet clearly. Peter Bale, in the sixteenth century, wrote in the compass of a silver penny the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, two Latin prayers, his own name, the day of the month and date of the year since the accession of Queen Elizabeth, and a motto. With a glass this writing could be read. By photography a sheet of the Times newspaper has been reduced to a smaller compass. (Greek, calos-grapho, I write beautifully.)

Callimachos The Italian Callimachos. Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437-1496).

Calling A vocation, trade, or profession. The allusion is to the calling of the apostles by Jesus Christ to follow Him. In the legal profession persons must still be called to the bar before they can practise.
   Effectual calling. An invitation to believe in Jesus, rendered effectual by the immediate operation of the Holy Ghost.

Calliope [Kal'-li-o-pe, 4 syl., Greek, kaloz, py beautiful voice ]. The muse of epic or heroic poetry. Her emblems are a stylus and wax tablets. The painting of this Muse by Ercolana Ercolanetti (1615-1687) and her statue by Clementi (who died in 1580) are very celebrated.
    The Greek word is Kallioph, in which the i is short. Erroneously called “Calilope.”

Callipolis A character in the Battle of Alcazar (1594) by George Peele. It is referred to by Pistol in 2 Henry IV., act ii. 4; and Sir W. Scott uses the word over and over again as the synonym of lady-love, sweetheart, charmer. Sir Walter always spells the word Callipolis, but Peele calls it Calipolis. The drunken Mike Lambourne says to Amy Robsart -

“Hark ye, most fair Callipolis, or most lovely countess of clouts, and divine duchess of dark corners.”- Kenilworth, chap. xxxiii.

   And the modest Roland Græme calls the beautiful Catherine his “most fair Callipolis.” (The Abbot, chap. xi.)

Callippic Period The correction of the Metonic cycle by Callippos. In four cycles, or seventy-six years, the Metonic calculation was seven and a-half in excess. Callippos proposed to quadruple the period of Meton, and deduct a day at the end of it: at the expiration of which period Callippos imagined that the new and full moons returned to the same day of the solar year.

Callirrhoe (4 syl.). The lady-love of Chæ'reas, in Chariton's Greek romance, entitled the Loves of Chæ'reas and Callirrhoë, written in the eighth century.

Calomel Hooper says-

“This name, which means `beautiful black,' was originally given to the Æthiop's mineral, or black sulphuret of mercury. It was afterwards applied in joke by Sir Theodore Mayerne to the chloride of mercury, in