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Calamus   Listen
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Calamus  n.  (pl. calami)  
1.
(Bot.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
2.
(Bot.) A species of Acorus (Acorus calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
3.
(Zool.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.





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"Calamus" Quotes from Famous Books



... write with a sowre Grape that would be black, or with Cervices; when you hold them to the fire they are concocted, and will give the same colour they would in due time give upon the tree, when they were ripe. Juice of Cherries, added to Calamus, will make a green: to sow- bread a red: so divers juices of Fruits will show divers colours by the fire. By these means Maids sending and receiving love-letters, escape from those that have charge of them. There ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho
... Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy handyworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise. Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding. Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of thy hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they thy merchants. The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy ...
— Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature • Various


Words linked to "Calamus" :   rattan, genus Calamus, bog plant, shaft, root, Acorus, Calamus rotang, sweet flag, feather, Calamus australis, Acorus calamus, myrtle flag, lawyer cane, rib, calamus oil, sweet calamus, palm, Calamus penna, sheepshead porgy


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