CAL

CAL taken during the Crusades, It is now called Banias, and has about 50 houses, many ruins of columns, towers, temples, a bridge, and of a remarkable castle. The place is now noted for one of the chief sources of the Jordan, which rushes in clear crystal springs from beneath the rocks of Mount Hermon, and flows rapidly towards Dan, uniting with another source below that town.

CAL is used to mix with ointments, on account of the delicacy of its odor." Calamus may have been a species of this.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Wolfram, an ore of tungsten. Simmonds.