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
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein
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
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
Along the centre of the floor is the median furrow, which terminates below in a pen-shaped form, the so-called calamus scriptorius.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
He could hardly have known of the two G's, from the sound; but the omission of the cross-bar from the one that was de rigueur was certainly a lapsus calami, and a serious one.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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 should be Fort Clark, not Fort Leavenworth—an evident lapsus calami.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
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
We omit translation of the words ”los seis,” “the six,” as being apparently a lapsus calami.
