Associations to the word «Clavis»

Wiktionary

CLAVIS, noun. (archaeology) A Roman key.
CLAVIS, noun. A device for restraint of the hands.
CLAVIS, noun. A glossary.
CLAVIS, noun. (biology) A key; an identification guide; a series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne