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2. Hardened in mind; insensible;
unfeeling; unsusceptible. "The callous diplomatist."
Macaulay.

It is an immense blessing to be perfectly
callous to ridicule.

T. Arnold.

Syn. -- Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated;
insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. See Obdurate.

-- Cal"lous*ly, adv. --
Cal"lous*ness, n.

A callousness and numbness of soul.

Bentley.

Cal"low (?), a. [OE. calewe,
calu, bald, AS. calu; akin to D. kaal, OHG.
chalo, G. Kuhl; cf. L. calvus.]

1. Destitute of feathers; naked;
unfledged.

An in the leafy summit, spied a nest,

Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.

Dryden.

2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a
callow youth.

I perceive by this, thou art but a callow
maid.

Old Play [1675].

Cal*low" (?), n.
(Zoöl.) [Named from its note.] A kind of duck.


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