(obsolete, rare) plural of calend

A calendar based on the movement of the Earth around the Sun, which defines the year. Dates indicate the position of the Earth during this revolution.

A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.

To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper etc., as in a calender.

One of a wandering, mendicant Sufic order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes, founded in the 13th century by an Arab named Yusuf.

Obsolete form of calendar. / Misspelling of calendar.

(chemistry) the calcium salt of sorbic acid

(chemistry) the calcium salt of benzoic acid

(chemistry) the calcium salt of formic acid; used in the scrubbing of flue gases, and as a food preservative

(mineralogy) a very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃, found as limestone, chalk and marble