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Calisaya Bark – Camellia

Calisaya Bark

a variety of Peruvian or cinchona bark, namely, that of Cinchona calisaya or flava.

Caloric

the name given to a supposed imponderable fluid to which the sensation and phenomena of heat were formerly attributed.

Caloric Engine

the name given by JOHN ERICSSON (q. v.) to his hot-air engine.

Calorie

the metric heat unit; the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° C.

Calpurnia

the fourth wife of Julius Cæsar, married to him 59 B. C.

She was a daughter of L. Calpurnius Piso, who was consul in 58 в. c. a

Calvin

JOHN, a

Cam

or GRANTA, a sluggish_river of England, which, rising in Essex, flows 40 miles N. W. and N. E. through Cambridgeshire, and falls into the Ouse 3½ miles above Ely. It gives name to the town of Cambridge, where it is barely wide enough for an eight-oar to turn.

Camberwell

a metropolitan borater London, on the S. side of ough of Greater the Thames, in the county of Surrey.

Pop . (1918) 262,000. LONDON.

Cambria

the ancient name of Wales, the Britannia Secunda of the Romans. The name is derived from that of Cimbri, or Cymri, by which the Welsh have always called themselves.

Cambric

originally the name of a fine kind of linen which was manufactured principally at Cambrai (German Kambryk) in French Flanders, whence the name. It is now applied to a cotton fabric, which is very extensively manufactured in imitation of the true cambric, and which is in reality a kind of muslin.

Cambridge

a city of Maryland, the county-seat of Dorchester co. It is on the Choptank river, and on the Cambridge and Seaford railroad. The city is an important meat-packing center, and has manufactures of underwear and lumber. It is the center of an extensive agricultural district. Pop. (1910) 6,407; (1920) 7,467.

Camellia

a genus of plants, order Ternströmiaceae (theads). It is very CAMELOPARD near akin to thea, which contains the tea plant; indeed, some botanists combine the two genera into one. The native countries of the camellias are the E. side of the Himalaya mountains, Cochin-China, China, Japan and the Eastern Islands.