_Tale of the Third Calender._ This tale is given under the word AGIB. * * * * * "I am called Agib," he says, "and am the son of a king whose name was Cassib."--_Arabian Nights_. CALEPINE (_Sir_), the knight attached to Sere´na (canto 3). Seeing a bear carrying off a child, he attacked it, and squeezed it to death, then committed the babe to the care of Matilde, wife of sir Bruin. As Matilde had no child of her own, she adopted it (canto 4).--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, vi. (1596). [Illustration] Upton says, "the child" in this incident is meant for M'Mahon, of Ireland, and that "Mac Mahon" means the "son of a bear." He furthermore says that the M'Mahons were descended from the Fitz-Ursulas, a noble English family. CA´LES (_2 syl._). So gipsies call themselves. Beltran Cruzado, count of the Cales. Longfellow, _The Spanish Student_. CALF-SKIN. Fools and jesters used to wear a calf-skin coat buttoned down the back, and hence Faulconbridge says insolently to the arch-duke of Austria, who had acted very basely towards Richard Lion-heart: Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf-skin on those recreant limbs. Shakespeare, _King John_, act ii. sc. I (1596). CAL´IANAX, a humorous old lord, father of Aspatia, the troth-plight wife of Amin´tor. It is the death of Aspatia which gives name to the drama.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Maid's Tragedy_ (1610). CALIBAN, a savage, deformed slave of Prospero (the rightful duke of Milan and father of Miranda). Caliban is the "freckled whelp" of the witch Syc´orax. Mrs. Shelley's "Frankenstein" is a sort of Caliban.--Shakespeare, _The Tempest_ (1609). "Caliban" ... is all earth ... he has the dawnings of understanding without reason or the moral sense ... this advance to the intellectual faculties without the moral sense is marked by the appearance of vice.--Coleridge. CAL´IBURN, same as _Excalibur_, the famous sword of king Arthur. Onward Arthur paced, with hand On Caliburn's resistless brand. Sir W. Scott, _Bridal of Triermain_ (1813). Arthur ... drew out his Caliburn, and ... rushed forward with great fury into the thickest of the enemy's ranks ... nor did he give over the fury of his assault till he had, with his Caliburn, killed 470 men.--Geoffrey, _British History_, ix. 4 (1142).