a. arch. [ad. L. calidus warm.] Warm, tepid; hot. (in Med.; cf. CALIDITY).
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physic, 41/2. Applye the same on the Foreheade … the salve beinge reasonable calide.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 141. A thin, calid, and chollerick humour.
1681. Chetham, Angler’s Vade-m., xxii. § 1 (1689), 141. Enlivened by the Suns calid Influence.
1854. Syd. Dobell, Balder, xxiii. 98. Crowned with oak and ash, Her [Summer’s] hot feet slippered in the calid seas.
