a. and sb. [L.: in full lapis calamināris ‘calamine stone,’ f. med.L. calamīna: see CALAMINE.] Earlier name of CALAMINE.
1577. Harrison, England, III. xii. (1878), 79. Those other which we call calaminares and speculares.
1585. Lloyd, Treas. Health, S vij. Take … of the stones called Lazulus and Calaminaris.
1750. trans. Leonardus’ Mirr. Stones, 93. Calaminaris, is a Stone, yellow, tender, not lucid, nor transparent.
1750. Beawes, Lex Mercat. (1752), 582. Somersetshire.… Produce … Copper, Lapis Calaminaris, Crystal.
