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2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured
pattern.

&fist; In the United States the term calico is applied
only to the printed fabric.

Calico bass (Zoöl.), an
edible, fresh-water fish (Pomoxys sparaides) of the rivers
and lake of the Western United States (esp. of the Misissippi
valley.), allied to the sunfishes, and so called from its
variegated colors; -- called also calicoback, grass
bass, strawberry bass, barfish, and
bitterhead. -- Calico printing,
the art or process of impressing the figured patterns on
calico.

Cal"i*co (?), a. Made of, or
having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal,
as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color
strikingly different from its main color. [Colloq. U.
S.]

Cal"i*co*back` (?), n.
(Zoöl.) (a) The calico
bass. (b) An hemipterous insect
(Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and
other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and
harlequin cabbage bug.

{ Ca*lic"u*lar (?), a.


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