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单词 calcar
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calcarn.1

/ˈkalkɑː/
Etymology: < Italian calcara ‘a lime-kill’ (Florio), ‘a kind of oven or furnace to calcine vitreous matter in’ (Baretti); compare Latin calcāria lime-kiln, feminine singular of calcārius, < calx, -cis lime.
1. In Glass-making: ‘A small furnace, in which the first calcination is made of sand and potash, for the formation of a frit’ (Ure s.v.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > glass-making furnaces
glass-furnace1632
calcar1662
leer1662
pot furnace1839
blowing-furnace1875
tank furnace1879
1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass 19 Mix & spread them well in the Calcar, with a rake, that they may be well calcined, & continue this till they begin to grow into lumps.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 104 The English call the whole Quantity, bak'd at a time in the Calcar, a Batch.
1832 G. R. Porter Porcelain & Glass in Lardner's Cab. Cycl. 155 The Calcar is in the form of an oven about ten feet long, seven feet wide, and two feet high.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 654 A reverberatory furnace or calcar.
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2. Metallurgy. An annealing arch or oven.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

calcarn.2

/ˈkalkɑː/
Etymology: < Latin calcar, calcāri- spur, < calc- heel + -āri- belonging to: see -ar suffix1.
Botany.
1. A hollow ‘spur’ from the base of a petal.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > petal > calcar, spur, or claw
heel1597
onglet1725
spur1731
claw1791
calcar1832
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. 120 Sometimes a petal is lengthened at the base into a hollow tube, as in Orchis, &c.: this is called the spur or calcar, and by some nectarotheca.
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 138/2 Calcar, or spur in flowers, is a hollow projection from the base of a petal, and has usually a conical figure.
1880 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) 400 Calcar, a spur; mostly used for the nectariferous one of a calyx or corolla.
2. Anatomy. Any of various spur-like bones of vertebrates, or the tibial spur of some insects.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > spur-like bone
calcar1895
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > leg(s) > fourth joint or tibia > tibia or spur
calcar1895
1895 Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. iii. 104 The spines at the top of the tibia [of insects], projecting beyond it, are called spurs, or calcares.
1898 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. II. 254 On the tibial side of the first [digit] is a spur-like structure or calcar..: such a rudimentary digit is called a præhallux.
1951 C. K. Weichert Anat. Chordates x. 484 A small additional bone, the prehallux, or calcar, occurs on the tibial side of the tarsus in most salientians.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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