Definition of "calces" []

• A plural of calx. (noun)

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• "The colours used in Enamel, are all metallic calces, mixed and melted with certain proportions of a vitreous substance, which, in the instant of fusion, discovers the colours and fixes them to the Enamelled Plate."
• "Qui terram colunt equi paleis pascuntur, qui otiantur caballi avena saginantur, discalceatus discurrit qui calces aliis facit."
• "A large proportion of the Balonda, indeed, have heads somewhat elongated backward and upward, thick lips, flat noses, elongated ‘ossa calces’, etc., etc.; but there are also many good-looking, well-shaped heads and persons among them."