a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
1550s, from L. calumniatus, pp. of calumniari "to accuse falsely," from calumnia "slander, false accusation" (see calumny). Related: Calumniation; calumniator.