2. Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech. "Calm and
sinless peace." Milton. "With calm attention." Pope.
Such calm old age as conscience pure
And self-commanding hearts ensure.
Keble.
Syn. — Still; quiet; undisturbed; tranquil; peaceful; serene; composed; unruffled; sedate; collected; placid.
Calmer
(Calm"er) n. One who, or that which, makes calm.
Calmly
(Calm"ly) adv. In a calm manner.
The gentle stream which calmly flows.
Denham.
Calmness
(Calm"ness), n. The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self- repose.
The gentle calmness of the flood.
Denham.
Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power.
E. Everett.
Syn. — Quietness; quietude; stillness; tranquillity; serenity; repose; composure; sedateness; placidity.
Calmucks
(Cal"mucks) n. pl.; sing. Calmuck. A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the
Russian and Chinese empires; also the language of the Calmucks. [Written also Kalmucks.]
Calmy
(Calm"y) a. [Fr. Calm, n.] Tranquil; peaceful; calm. [Poet.] "A still and calmy day" Spenser.
Calomel
(Cal"o*mel) n. [Gr. kalo`s beautiful + me`las black. So called from its being white, though
made from a black mixture of mercury and corrosive sublimate. Cf. F. calomélas.] (Chem.) Mild chloride
of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in
medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
Calorescence
(Cal`o*res"cence) n. [L. calor heat.] (Physics) The conversion of obscure radiant heat
into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall.
Caloric
(Ca*lor"ic) n. [L. calor heat; cf. F. calorique.] (Physics) The principle of heat, or the agent
to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; — not now used in scientific
nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
Caloric expands all bodies.
Henry.
Caloric
(Ca*lor"ic), a. Of or pertaining to caloric.
Caloric engine, a kind of engine operated by heated air.
Caloricity
(Cal`o*ric"ity) n. (Physiol.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary
to life, that is, the animal heat.
Caloriduct
(Ca*lor"i*duct) n. [L. calor heat (fr. calere to warm) + E. duct.] A tube or duct for conducting
heat; a caliduct.
Calorie
(Cal"o*rie) n. [F., fr. L. calor heat.] (Physics) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the
amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one
degree centigrade, or from 0° to 1°. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound.
Calorifacient
(Ca*lor`i*fa"cient) a. (Physiol.) See Calorificient.
