- A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the
calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. - A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. - A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which
helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. - A spur, or spurlike prominence. - A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the
brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
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