Usually means: Residue left after calcining something.
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  1. calx: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. calx: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. calx: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. calx: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  11. Calx: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  13. calx: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  16. calx: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  3. calx: Medical dictionary

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  1. calx: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

(Note: See calces as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (calx)

noun:  (now chiefly historical) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
noun:  In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.

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