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The Greek calends, a time that will
never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

||Ca*len"du*la (?), n. [NL., fr. L.
calendae calends.] (Bot.) A genus of composite
herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is
the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends
of every month, whence the name.

Ca*len"du*lin (?), n.
(Chem.) A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance
obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to
bassorin.

Cal"en*ture (?), n. [F.
calenture, fr. Sp. calenture heat, fever, fr.
calentar to heat, fr. p. pr. of L. calere to be
warm.] (Med.) A name formerly given to various
fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium
accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the
affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to
throw himself into it.

Cal"en*ture, v. i. To see as
in the delirium of one affected with calenture.


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