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CALCINATO

Volume 5 · 143 words · 1823 Edition

a town of Italy, in the duchy of Mantua, remarkable for a victory gained over the Imperialists by the French in 1706. E. Long. p. 55. N. Lat. 45° 25'.

CALCULARY of a Pear, a congeries of little strong knots dispersed through the whole parenchyma of the fruit. The calculary is most observed in rough-tasted or choke pears. The knots lie more continuous and compact together towards the part where they surround the acetary. About the stalk they stand more distant; but towards the cork, or stool of the flower, they still grow closer, and there at last gather into the firmness of a plum stone. The calculary is no vital or essential part of the fruit; the several knots whereof it consists being only so many concretions or precipitations out of the sap, as we see in urines, wines, and other liquors.