"Kala" is a word in ILOKANO, HILIGAYNON
see KALKALA. KALABUS [f. Sp.], n. jail, prison. --syn. PRISO, KARSEL, PAGBALUDAN. v. /MANGI-: I-/ to imprison. --syn. PRISO, BALUD.
kála - Shell, tortoise shell; made of tortoise
shell (or an imitation of it); comb (of
tortoise shell). Ang íya husáy kála. Her
comb is made of tortoise shell.
kálà - A croak, the hoarse, harsh cry of a
frog; to croak (as a frog). Ang mga pakâ
(pánkà) nagakálà. Frogs croak. N.B. The
Dim. and Freq. kalâkalâ is more in use.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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baláy - House, home; building, dwelling, abode; nest, breeding place, shell of a snail, of a turtle, etc. Diín ang …
Read the complete definitionbaó-báo - Dim. of baó. Also: The instep, the forepart of the upper side of the human foot near its …
Read the complete definitionThe four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of …
Read the complete definitionDecorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.
Read the complete definitionThe thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
Read the complete definitionA substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously …
Read the complete definitionAn order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum …
Read the complete definitionThe oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually …
Read the complete definitionA sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.
Read the complete definitionA large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and …
Read the complete definitionThe ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.
Read the complete definitionA river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a …
Read the complete definitionThe hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, …
Read the complete definitionAn instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a …
Read the complete definitionAn order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an …
Read the complete definitionResembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
Read the complete definitionResembling the shell of a tortoise.
Read the complete definitionA kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled …
Read the complete definitionhaving a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe …
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