Chapter Caligula's Horse to Calumet of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

honour of a favourite negro servant whom he employed to prepare it. As calomel is a white powder, the name is merely a jocular misnomer.”- Medical Dictionary.

   Greek, kaloz beautiful ,melaz black.

Caloyers Monks in the Greek Church, who follow the rule of St. Basil. They are divided into cenobites, who recite the offices from midnight to sunrise; anchorites, who live in hermitages; and recluses, who shut themselves up in caverns and live on alms. (Greek, kaloz and gerwu, beautiful old man.)

Calpe (2 syl.). Calpë and Abyla. The two pillars of Hercules. According to one account, these two were originally only one mountain, which Hercules tore asunder; but some say he piled up each mountain separately, and poured the sea between them.

“Heaves up huge Abyla on Afric's sand,
Crowns with high Calpë Europe's salient strand,
Crests with opposing towers the splendid scene,
And pours from urns immense the sea between.
Darwin: Economy of Vegetation.

Calumet [the peace - pipe ]. When the North American Indians make peace or form an alliance, the high contracting parties smoke together to ratify the arrangement.
   The peace-pipe is about two and a- half feet long, the bowl is made of highly-polished red marble, and the stem of a reed, which is decorated with eagles' quills, women's hair, and so on.

“The Great Spirit at an ancient period called the Indian nations together, and standing on the precipice of the red pipe-stone rock, broke off a piece which he moulded into the bowl of a pipe, and fitting on it a long reed, filled the pipe with the bark of red willow, and smoked over them, turning to the four winds. He told them the red colour of the pipe represented their flesh, and when they smoked it they must bury their war-clubs and scalping-knives. At the last whiff the Great Spirit disappeared.”

   To present the calumet to a stranger is a mark of hospitality and good-will; to refuse the offer is an act of hostile defiance.

“Wash the war-paint from your faces,
Wash the war-stains from your fingers,
Bury your war-clubs and your weapons; ...
Smoke the calumet together,
And as brothers live henceforward.”
Longfellow: Hiawatha, i.