Obs. Also calke, kalk. [app. shortened from CALCULE, calkil, calkle.]
1. trans. To calculate, reckon; esp. astrologically.
1401. Pol. Poems (1859), II. 61. If y cowde calkyn al manere kyndes.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 58. Calkyn, calculo.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., xviii. i. On his boke he began to calke How the sonne entred was in Gemyne.
1559. Mirr. Mag., Dk. Clarence, xxvi. 3. Whose fortunes kalked made the father sad.
1646. J. Geree, Astrologom., 19. Woolsey calked the Kings Nativity.
2. intr. or absol.
1398. [see CALKING 1].
1455. in Paston Lett., I. 350. Oon Doktor Grene, a preest, hath kalked and reporteth, that [etc.].
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 55/1. They kalked on his natyvyte.
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., xliv. 26. If one diuell with an other for lies should calke.
3. ? To appropriate, lay claim to. [Perhaps a different word = to chalk out.]
1606. Birnie, Kirk-Buriall, 30. By kirk-buriall the pavement [is] so partiallie parted to paticulare men, that if they cleaue to that they haue calked, the people that rests must byde at the doore.
