The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caligo \Ca*li"go\, n. [L., darkness.] (Med.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine obsolete English) dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea
Usage examples of "caligo".
It was Caligo who had buried him in the sand of a faraway seashore when he was young, for the crime of being short.
It was Caligo who had laughed, bringing his cohorts to watch as the rising tide washed over Minnum, as his nostrils filled with seawater, as he gasped and choked.
But then his blood ran cold, for somehow Caligo was instantly aware of him.
He cried out, for it was as if Caligo had pierced him with a firebrand.
He continued being pulled down, drowning as he almost had when Caligo had buried him in the beach.
He kept a tight lid on the innate terror he felt at the proximity of the serpent, and when at last it was within spitting distance, he cast Fly's-Eye to send it and Caligo into a chaos of conflicting thoughts.
He felt Caligo beginning to probe, encountering Night Blindness, trying to figure out what had happened.
Minnum felt the coldness of the necromantic spells Caligo was using to try to free his finger.
Already, Caligo had regained some control over the black finger, bringing it back from its unnatural position.
When Caligo blew it apart, the composite Sticky Spell adhered to him without his knowing it.
Now, with Caligo gone, it was up to Varda to keep him in his place, to make certain that whoever replaced Caligo as the third archon was Varda's choice.
With Caligo and Varda out of the way there was no other sauromician of sufficient strength to challenge him.
In the mirror a huge-eyed creature gazed at Janie, like a tarsier or one of the owlish caligo moths.