caller
- n a social or business visitor
- n an investor who buys a call option
- n the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands
- n a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance
you need a fiddler and a caller for country dancing - n someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice
the callers were mothers summoning their children home for dinner - n the person who convenes a meeting
who is the caller of this meeting? - n the person initiating a telephone call
there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone - s providing coolness
`caller' is a Scottish term as in `a caller breeze' - s fresh
caller fish
callipygian
- s pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks
the quest for the callipygian ideal
callous
- v make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
- s emotionally hardened
a callous indifference to suffering - s having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
calloused skin
with a workman's callous hands
calloused
- v make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
- s having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
calloused skin
calm
- n steadiness of mind under stress
- n wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
- v make calm or still
- v make steady
- v become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
- v cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
- s not agitated; without losing self-possession
spoke in a calm voice
remained calm throughout the uproar - a (of weather) free from storm or wind
calm seas