Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

cal·i·co       (kāl'ĭ-kō')  Pronunciation Key  n.   pl. cal·i·coes or cal·i·cos A coarse, brightly printed cloth. Chiefly British A plain white cotton cloth, heavier than muslin. An animal, such as a cat, having a coat that is mottled in tones of white with red and black. [After Calicut.] cal'i·co adj.

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
calico 

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This

calico
adjective
1.	made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat"
2.	having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley]
noun
1.	coarse cloth with a bright print

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

Calico
C+@

U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source - Share This

Calico Rock, AR (city, FIPS 10570) Location: 36.12830 N, 92.13115 W
Population (1990): 938 (421 housing units)
Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Calico

Cal"i*co\, n.; pl. Calicoes. [So called because first imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.]

1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.]

The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. --Beck (Draper's Dict. ).

2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric.

Calico bass (Zo["o]l.), an edible, fresh-water fish (Pomoxys sparaides) of the rivers and lake of the Western United States (esp. of the Misissippi valley.), allied to the sunfishes, and so called from its variegated colors; -- called also calicoback, grass bass, strawberry bass, barfish, and bitterhead.

Calico printing, the art or process of impressing the figured patterns on calico.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Calico

Cal"i*co\, a. Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color. [Colloq. U. S.]