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Caligo

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Dimness of sight; caligation. Also called achlys.
  • noun. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of butterflies, of the subfamily Brassolinæ. C. eurylochus is the enormous owl-butterfly of South America, sometimes expanding 9 inches. C. uranus is another species with an orange bar across the wings.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea
  • Word Usage
    "Fuscini derepente tanta acris caligo et terraemotus, ut multi capite dolerent, plurimus cor moerore et melancholia obrueretur."
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