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calamus

[kal-uh-muhs] / ˈkæl ə məs /


NOUN
quill
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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

These feathers are specially interesting, inasmuch as they retain throughout life a stage corresponding to that seen in the very young cassowary, the calamus being greatly swollen, and supporting a very degenerate rhachis and vane.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

Here also grew camphor, with spikenard, and saffron, calamus, and cinnamon, with all its trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloes, with all chief spices.

From A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Percy Lubbock

The scummy pond sleeps lazily, Clad thick with lilies, and the bee Reels boisterous as a Bassarid Above the bloated green frog hid In lush wan calamus and grass, Beside the water's stagnant glass.

From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein

The outside of the raw calamus is smooth and is made into commercial cane used for chairs.

From Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools by Virginia McGaw

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

We omit translation of the words ”los seis,” “the six,” as being apparently a lapsus calami.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

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

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




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