(adjective) : uncus, a, um, 1. uncus
* Hooked, bent in, crooked, curved, barbed (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: curvus, recurvus): uncus hamus,Ov. M. 15, 476; also called unca aera,id. P. 2, 7, 10: cornua (tauri),Prop. 2, 5, 19: aratrum,Verg. G. 1, 19; Ov. M. 5, 341; 7, 210; cf.: vomer aratri,Lucr. 1, 313; also called dens,Verg. G. 2, 423: pedes (harpyiae),id. A. 3, 233: ungues,Lucr. 5, 1322: manus,Verg. G. 2, 365: digiti,Col. 7, 11, 2: cauda,Ov. M. 15, 371: labrum,Lucr. 4, 588; 5, 1407.
* Transf.: unco non alligat ancora morsu,Verg. A. 1, 169: avis Minervae,i. e. with crooked beak and talons,Stat. Th. 3, 507; cf. alites,id. ib. 12, 212.

uncus (noun M) : Sanscr. root ak, ankami, bend; Gr. ἀγκών, ὄγκος; cf.: ancus, ungulus
* A hook, barb.
* In gen., Liv. 30, 10, 16; Col. 3, 18, 2: ferrei,Cato, R. R. 10; 13.—As an attribute of Necessitas, Hor. C. 1, 35, 20.—Poet., an anchor, Val. Fl. 2, 428.
* In partic.
* A hook that was fastened to the neck of condemned criminals, and by which they were dragged to the Tiber, Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5; id. rab. Perd. 5, 16; Ov. Ib. 168; Juv. 10, 66; cf.: et bene cum fixum mento discusseris uncum, Nil erit hoc: rostro te premet ansa suo,Prop. 4 (5), 1, 141.
* A surgical instrument, Cels. 7, 29.