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                    "description": "ăcus (noun F) : cf. 2. acer.\n* A needle or pin, as being pointed, both for common use and ornament: ̏quasarcinatrix veletiam ornatrix utitur,˝ Paul. ex Fest. p. 9 Müll.\n* Lit.: mirabar vulnus, quod acu punctum videtur,Cic. Mil. 24.—Hence, acu pingere, to embroider, Verg. A. 9, 582; Ov. M. 6, 23; cf. Plin. 8, 48, § 191; Isid. Orig. 19, 22, 22.—Esp. a hair-pin: figat acus tortas sustineatque comas,Mart. 14, 24: foramen acūs,the eye of a needle,Vulg. Matt. 19, 24.—Also, a surgeon's needle, a probe, Cels. 7, 17.—Hence\n* The tongue of a buckle, Treb. Poll. Claud. 14.\n* I. q. acus, ĕris, Col. 2, 10, 40.\n* An implement of husbandry, Pall. 1, 43, 2."
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