siccus

Placing the amethyst on the man's forehead, Love walked widdershins around him, murmuring "siccus, siccus, siccus."

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

The main interest of the little hortus siccus was the Alpine

The Land of Midian 2003

The first-floor hall was wide, milk chocolate with white cornice and mouldings, the same green carpet, a Hortus siccus in a copper trough on a console table, a couple of fat-seated, round-backed chairs upholstered in goldenbrowii velvet, a twinkling chandelier and a brown table lamp with a cream satin shade.

Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

There were said to be four qualities of touch, -- _calidus, humidus, frigidus, et siccus_, or hot, cold, moist, and dry, -- according to which persons were active or passive in the exercise of the fascinum.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

The hair is a dry fume (_fumus siccus_), escaping from the body through the pores of the scalp and condensed by contact with the air into long, round cylinders.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

Mr. Marks cannot avoid, too, giving us, like every one else, a set of clinical lectures on the morbid anatomy of his own inner man, under the appropriate title of '_Weeds_ from Life's Sea-shore;' forgetting that sea-weeds must be very rare and delicate indeed to be worth preserving in a _hortus siccus_, instead of being usefully covered out of sight in the nearest earth-heap, there to turn into manure.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

I protest, Gentlemen, that if our eyes had not been sealed, as with wax, by the pedagogues of whom I spoke a fortnight ago, this one habit of regarding our own literature as a hortus siccus, this our neglect to practise good writing as the constant auxiliary of an Englishman’s liberal education, would be amazing to you seated here to-day as it will be starkly incredible to the future historian of our times.

II. The Practice of Writing 1916

” It would certainly be a valuable addition of nondescripts to the ample collection of known classes, genera and species, which at present beautify the hortus siccus of dissent.

Paras. 1-24 1909

You know it is possible that he, the editor, may not please to have the _fourth_ paper; but even in that case, it is better for the 'Remarks' to remain fragmentary, than be compressed till they are as dry as a _hortus siccus_ of poets.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

Mr. Taylor had begun to compile a _flora_ accompanied by a _hortus siccus_, but both stayed on high shelves dusty and fragmentary.

The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905