Pecten, pectinis, pen. cor. mas. ge. The slay of a weauers loome hauing teeth like a combe.Insecti dentes pectine.Ouid.Vnci pectmis moderator, textor. Claud. A weauer.Rarum pectine densat opus.Ouid.Arguto coniux percurrit pectine telas.Virg.Textoris pectine percussæ lacernæ.Iuuen. Pecten. Plautus. A combe, either to kembe the heade, or to dresse hempe. A paire of cardes to carde wooll with.Vallum pectinis abrupit capillos.Ouid.Deducit crines pectine.Ouid.She kembeth hir heade.Per pectiuem attondere. Plaurus. To notte or polle with a combe. Pecten. Colum. A kinde of hookes to reape corne. Pecten.Ouid.A rake: a dragge or harrow, Pecten.Iuuen.A place about the priuie members where the haire groweth. Pecten.Virg.A sticke wherewith they play on dulcimers.Crispus pecten.Iuuen. Pectines, siue pectúnculi. Plin. Fishes called Scalops. Pectines, in arboribus. Plin. The long graine in trees, by which the wood cleaueth.
Pecto, pectis, pexui, vel pexi, pexum, péctere. Virg.To kembe or trimme haire: to carde wooll: to strike the Dulcimers or harpe.Cæsariem pectere. Hor. Capillos pectere. Ouid.Capillos pectendos præbere.Ouid.Comas bene pectere. Tibul. Lanam pectere. Colum. To carde wooll.Stupam pectere. Plin. To kembe slaxe or hurdes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pecten, ĭnis, m. [pecto], a comb.I. 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.—II.Transf., of things resembling a comb. A.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.— 2.The weaver's art, weaving: victa est Pectine Niliaco jam Babylonis acus, Mart. 14, 150, 2.—B.An instrument for heckling flax or combing wool, a comb, card, heckle, Juv. 9, 30; Plin. 11, 23, 27, 77; Claud. Eutr. 2, 382.—C.A rake: tonsam raro pectine verrit humum, Ov. R. Am. 191; Plin. 18, 30, 72, 297; Col. 2, 20.—D.A clasping of the hands in distress, Ov. M. 9, 299.—Of the mingling of the oars of two vessels: mixtis obliquo pectine remis, Luc. 3, 609 dub. (al. pectore).—E. Pecten dentium, a row of teeth, Prud. stef. 10, 934.— F.A stripe or vein in wood, Plin. 16, 38, 73, 185.—G.The hair of the pubes, Juv. 6, 370; Plin. 29, 1, 8, 26.—Also, the sharebone, Cels. 8, 1.—H.A kind of dance: Amazonius, Stat. Achill. 2, 156.—K.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.—2.Transf.a.A lyre, Val. Fl. 3, 159.—b.A poem or song: dum canimus sacras alterno pectine Nonas, i. e.
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, Ov. F. 2, 121.—L.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.—M. Pecten Veneris, a plant, perh. Venus's comb, needle-weed, Plin. 24, 19, 114, 175.