Definition of Calami

1. calamus [n] - See also: calamus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calami

calamancoes
calamancos
calamander
calamanders
calamari
calamari ring
calamaries
calamaris
calamars
calamary
calamata
calamatas
calambac
calambour
calami (current term)
calamine
calamine lotion
calamined
calamines
calamining
calamint
calamints
calamite
calamites
calamitic
calamities
calamitous
calamitously
calamitousness

Literary usage of Calami

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Dr. calami/. My knowledge of Mr. Cornish halb been since 1 came to be ... Dr. calami/. I marked, his words, because of the character 1 hail heard of him. ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"LAPSUS calami WILL there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse Of a prose which knows no reason And an ..."

3. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"Radix calami aromatici, Radix Acori; Sweet Flag Root; F. Acore odorant ou vrai, Roseau aromatique; G. Kalmus. Regarding the introduction of Acorns Calamus ..."

4. The Works of William Robertson ...: To which is Prefixed, an Account of His by William Robertson, Dugald Stewart (1817)
"Various So great was the disorder, and such the calami- employed ties, which these perpetual hostilities occasioned, in order ^hat various efforts were made ..."

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