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                    "description": "pecten (noun M) : pecto\n* A comb.\n* Prop., for the hair, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 18; Ov. Am. 1, 14, 15: deducit pectine crines,id. M. 4, 311; 12, 409; Petr. 126; Spart. Hadr. 26.\n* Transf., of things resembling a comb.\n* The reed or sley of a weaver's loom: arguto tenues percurrens pectine telas,Verg. A. 7, 14; Ov. F. 3, 819; cf. id. M. 6, 58; Varr. L. L. 5, 23, § 113.\n* A stripe or vein in wood, Plin. 16, 38, 73, § 185.\n* The hair of the pubes, Juv. 6, 370; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 26.—Also, the sharebone, Cels. 8, 1.\n* A kind of dance: Amazonius,Stat. Achill. 2, 156.\n* An instrument with which the strings of the lyre were struck: jamque eadem digitis, jam pectine pulsat eburno,Verg. A. 6, 647 Serv.; Juv. 6, 382.\n* Pecten dentium, a row of teeth, Prud. στεφ. 10, 934.\n* A kind of shell-fish, a scallop: pectinibus patulis jactat se molle Tarentum,Hor. S. 2, 4, 34; Plin. 9, 33, 51, § 101; 9, 51, 74, § 160; 11, 37, 52, § 139; 11, 51, 112, § 267; 32, 11, 53, § 150.\n* Pecten Veneris, a plant, perh. Venus's comb, needle-weed, Plin. 24, 19, 114, § 175.\n* A poem or song: dum canimus sacras alterno pectine Nonas,i. e. in distichs,Ov. F. 2, 121."
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