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ăcus (noun F) : cf. 2. acer.
* A needle or pin, as being pointed, both for common use and ornament: ̏quasarcinatrix veletiam ornatrix utitur,˝ Paul. ex Fest. p. 9 Müll.
* 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
* The tongue of a buckle, Treb. Poll. Claud. 14.
* I. q. acus, ĕris, Col. 2, 10, 40.
* An implement of husbandry, Pall. 1, 43, 2.
* A needle or pin, as being pointed, both for common use and ornament: ̏quasarcinatrix veletiam ornatrix utitur,˝ Paul. ex Fest. p. 9 Müll.
* 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
* The tongue of a buckle, Treb. Poll. Claud. 14.
* I. q. acus, ĕris, Col. 2, 10, 40.
* An implement of husbandry, Pall. 1, 43, 2.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
Lewis Short
ăcus (noun M) : 1. acus
* A kind of sea-fish with a pointed snout, the hornpike or gar-pike (Gr. βελόνη): acus sive belone unus piscium, etc.,Plin. 9, 51, 76, § 166: et satius tenues ducere credis acos,Mart. 10, 37, 6; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 145, where belonae again occurs. (Some read una for unus in the passage from Plin., and acūs for acos in Mart., as if these forms belonged to 1. acus.)
* A kind of sea-fish with a pointed snout, the hornpike or gar-pike (Gr. βελόνη): acus sive belone unus piscium, etc.,Plin. 9, 51, 76, § 166: et satius tenues ducere credis acos,Mart. 10, 37, 6; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 145, where belonae again occurs. (Some read una for unus in the passage from Plin., and acūs for acos in Mart., as if these forms belonged to 1. acus.)
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
Lewis Short
ăcus (noun N.f) : n. (also, , f., v. 1. acus, III.) [kindred with acus, ūs, Goth.
* Ahana, old Norse agn, old Germ. Agana], = ἄχυρον, the husk of grain and of pulse; chaff, Cato, R. R. 54, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 52; 57; 3, 9, 8.
* Ahana, old Norse agn, old Germ. Agana], = ἄχυρον, the husk of grain and of pulse; chaff, Cato, R. R. 54, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 52; 57; 3, 9, 8.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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