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κα^λαμ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, (κάλαμος)
A.limed twig, acc. -ῖδα (perh. metri gr.) AP10.11 (Satyr.).
2. case for a writing-reed, pen-case, Poll.10.59, Hsch.; pen(?), Phld.Po.2.41.
3. toothpick or toothbrush, Dsc.1.70; = κάλαμος 11.7, Id.Eup.1.60, Paul.Aeg.6.24; also of quills used as splints for broken noses, ib.91.
4. = κάλαμος 11.8, Poll.5.96, Hsch.
5. pl., καλαμίδες (sic AB269), αἱ, reeds put in layers to strengthen buildings, IG11(2).144A61, 62 (Delos, iv B.C.), Inscr.Délos 366 A 36 (iii B.C.), IG22.1672.64, cf. ABl.c.; also, bundles, ibid.
6. at Cerynea, = καλαμαία, Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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