Definition of Camans

1. caman [n] - See also: caman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Camans

cam'st
cam stroke
cama
camachile
camaieu
camaieus
camaieux
camail
camailed
camails
camalexin
camallanina
caman
camanachd
camanchaca
camans (current term)
camaraderie
camaraderies
camarilla
camarillas
camaron
camarons
camas
camases
camash
camashes

Literary usage of Camans

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

1. The Gael: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Preservation and Cultivation of (1903)
"Indeed, there was a look of sleep-walkers about all of them, but they seemed every moment to be coming more like themselves, and the click of the camans as ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"... or of something in and beyond nature working as a causa camans, which, though half concealed, is at the same time half revealed in nature. ..."

3. History of Rome by Thomas Arnold (1848)
"Further to the north, " the Senonian Gauls re- camans and € f • mained quiet," says Polybius J, " for a period of ten years after the battle of ..."

4. Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate by Rufus Choate (1878)
"It applies itself directly to the causa camans. It imparts and it shapes that basis of qualities, good or bad, large or little, stone or wood, ..."

5. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1908)
"GENERAL STEAM COMPANY. or causa camans of the accident ?) (LoRD CAMPBELL, Ch. J.: Does it not, if it be the proxima causa NAVIGATION At any rate, ..."

6. The Fair Hills of Ireland by Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1906)
"... playing hurley on the green sward ; and the ball that they drove with their camans was a human head. Conall asked why this game was played, ..."

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