Bible Dictionaries
Caloric

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Of or pertaining to caloric.

(2):

(n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; - not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Caloric'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/caloric.html. 1828.