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Webster 1913 Edition

Caloric

Ca-lor′ic

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Noun.
[L.
calor
heat; cf. F.
calorique
.]
(Physics)
The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; – not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
Caloric
expands all bodies.
Henry.

Ca-lor′ic

,
Adj.
Of or pertaining to caloric.
Caloric engine
,
a kind of engine operated by heated air.

Webster 1828 Edition

Caloric

CALORIC

,
Noun.
The principle or matter of heat, or the simple element of heat. Caloric may be defined, the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion are ascribed. Caloric expands all bodies.

CALORIC

,
Adj.
Pertaining to the matter of heat.

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