calamus
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In the garden grow "an orchard of pomegranates . . . spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2011
"And then one can run around with Patty and tease the boys who sell pink calamus buds, and buy 'Peppery pot, smoking hot.'"
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas
It is recognized by converging fibres which look like a pen, and are therefore called the calamus scriptorius, or writer’s pen.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
Bromfield, Dr., sterility of the ivy and Acorus calamus, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
Hence in Italian a squid is called calamaio, from calamus a reed or pen, and in English the similar term calamary is sometimes used.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the lapsus calami of God.
From Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
This contains "oleum calami," and the bitter principle "acorin."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
In providing copy for a work of six volumes, each of about 1000 pages, it was but natural that lapsus calami should occur from time to time.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
I think this must have been a lapsus calami on Voltaire's part, because it is unlikely that he would have invented such a story.
From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by George Sale
It can, therefore, have been a mere lapsus calami on her part, as this eminently sensible woman was incapable of the silly weakness of concealing her age.
From Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern
