calorify

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How is it that the Mantis, for who knows how many ages, has been able to outstrip our physicists in this problem in calorics?

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

Gottlieb's table of calorics puts oak at the bottom of the list and pine at the top.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

"The calorics of this room must be about ninety in the shade."

From Vicky Van by Wells, Carolyn

Are there not tabloids that supply the body with oxygen, hydrogen, calorics, or whatever else is essential to life in the common hundredweights and gallons of bread, meat, and drink?

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.