Concha, conchæ. Plin. Euery shell sith: a shell of a muskle, cockle, or other like: a pearle: a hollow dessell, as a washing holl or trep: sometime a wine potte: also a trumpet, properly made of earth, like a Coruelis horne.Conchæ genus imbricatum. Vide IMBREX. Thessalicus concharum color. Lucr. Putple.Concharum pectunculi. Vide pectunculus in PECTVS. Marinæ conchæ.Ouid. Pacula concha. Cic.Tenues conchæ.Ouid.Small thell fithes.Viles conchæ. Horat. Inda concha. Propert. A pearle of Indie.Diues concha. Claud. Pretiosæ conchæ. Claud. Precious peailes. Complere se conchis.Cic.Legere conchas.Cic.To gather pearles, or shell fishes.Pisciculi parui in concham hiancem inuatant.Cicer.Swim into the shell fish gaping. Testæ ipsæ duriores, propriè conchæ dicuntur, quales sune cochlearum. Colum. The head shell of any fish.Salis concha. Hor. A shell full of salt.Capaces conchæ. Hor. Wide shelles.Squalentes conchæ.Virg.Detritis conchis læuior.Ouid.Smoother then worne shels.Pinna duabus grandibus patula conchis.Cic. Conchæ. Martian. Shelles wherein painters put their colours. Concha, Plin A hollow dessell, as a bell, bason, or pan.Ferrea concha. Plin. Concha, pro. Tuba ponitu. Virg.A trumpet.Concula. Dimintiuum.
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concha, ae, f., = ko/gxh. I.A bivālve shell-fish, mussel, Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 8; 2, 1, 15; Lucr. 2, 374; Verg. G. 2, 348; Plin. 9, 33, 52, 102: legere, Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 22; Suet. Calig. 46: cavae, Ov. M. 4, 725: marinae, id. ib. 15, 264: viles, Hor. S. 2, 4, 28: unionum, Suet. Ner. 31.—B. In partic. 1.A pearl-oyster, Plin. 9, 35, 54, 107 sq.— Hence, b.Meton., a pearl: lucida, Tib. 2, 4, 30; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 13, 6; Ov. M. 10, 260; id. Am. 2, 11, 13.—2.The purple-fish, Lucr. 2, 501; Ov. M. 10, 267.—II.A mussel-shell, Lucr. 4, 937; Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123: ostrea in conchis suis, Ov. F. 6, 174.—Hence, B.Meton.1.A snail-shell, Col. poët. 10, 324.—b.The Triton's trumpet, in form like a snail-shell, Verg. A. 10, 209; Ov. M. 1, 333; Plin. 9, 5, 4, 9; the trumpet of Misenus, Verg. A. 6, 171.—2. Of objects in the form of a mussel-shell. a.A vessel for holding oil, unguents, salt, etc., Cato, R. R. 13, 2; Col. 12, 50, 8; Hor. C. 2, 7, 23; id. S. 1, 3, 14 al.—b. = cunnus, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 42; Fulg. Myth. 2, 4.