Lanûgo, pen pro. lanuginis, f. g. Colum. The soft haires or mofinesse in the visages of children or women: also in frnites andhearbes, as in Clarie, &c. the downe fethers in birdes, &c.Nulla teneri sordent lanugine vultus. Mart. Their visages are not defaced with any haire growing on thÊ: they haue no beardes.Comæ graciles instar lanuginis.Ouid.Fuscante lanugine malas. Lucan. Noua lanugo.Ouid. Primæ lanuginis ætas. Ouid.Primæ lanuginis anni. Propert. The age when a yoling beard first beginneth. Rara lanugo. Plin. Ridens lanugo. Claud. Rosea lanugine malæ. Stat. Mala cana tenera lanugine.Virg.Cheekes hoare with soft haire.Frondium lanugine vestiri. Plin. To haue garmeutes made of the mosinesse or cotton that groweth on leaues.Molli lanugine abundans herba. Lucr. Lanugo. Colum. Saw dust, or pouder comming of timber bored or cut.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lānūgo, ĭnis, f. [cf. Gr. la/xnh, Lat. lāna], woolly substance, down, of plants, of the cheeks, etc. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). I.Lit.: flaventem primā ianugine malas Dum sequeris Clytium, Verg. A. 10, 324; so, primaque par sacrae lanugo senectae, Juv. 13, 59; cf.: comae graciles et lanuginis instar, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 23: signarat dubia teneras lanugine malas, id. M. 13, 754: a prima lanugine, Suet. Oth. 12: herba cubile praebebat, multa et molli lanugine abundans, Lucr. 5, 817: folia araneosa lanugine obducta, Plin. 24, 12, 66, 108: cana legam tenera lanugine mala, Verg. E. 2, 51.—II.Transf., sawdust, Col. 4, 29, 16.
