How To Use Clavus In A Sentence
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Cloves (from _clavus_, a nail), also found in the kitchen spice box, and owning certain medicinal resources of a cordial sort, which are quickly available, belong to the Myrtle family of plants, and are the unexpanded flower buds of an aromatic tree (_Caryophyllus_), cultivated at Penang and elsewhere.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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The clavus was a purple border, by which the senators, and other orders, with the magistrates, were distinguished; the breadth of the stripe corresponding with their rank.] [Footnote 225: In which the whole humour of the thing consisted either in the uses to which these articles were applied, or in their names having in
De vita Caesarum
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They take their name from the Latin word clavus, or the French clou, both meaning a nail, and to which the clove has a considerable resemblance.
The Book of Household Management
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Clavus: the club of an antenna lava and clavola: in Heteroptera, the oblong sclerite at the base of the inferior margin of the hemelytra: the knob at the end of the stigmal or radial veins in certain Hymenoptera.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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His togas [224] were neither scanty nor full; (127) and the clavus was neither remarkably broad or narrow.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
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They will have another nine days as they prepare for a conclave, cumme clave, a cumme clavus, the locking in to the Sistine Chapel.
CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005
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These hysteric affections are not necessarily attended with pain; though it sometimes happens, that pains, which originate from quiescence, afflict these patients, as the hemicrania, which has erroneously been termed the clavus hystericus; but which is owing solely to the inaction of the membranes of that part, like the pains attending the cold fits of intermittents, and which frequently returns like them at very regular periods of time.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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The clavus was a purple border, by which the senators, and other orders, with the magistrates, were distinguished; the breadth of the stripe corresponding with their rank.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
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From there, six thousand men wended their way in solemn order across the Velia and down the Clivus Sacer into the lower Forum, most of them knights with the narrow stripe — the angustus clavus — on their tunics, a thinned Senate following behind the consuls and their lictors.
The Grass Crown
