To shine or sende foorth beames like the sunne. Flauo radiant electra metallo. Mart. Miles radiabat in armis. Proper. The souldiour glittered in his bright armout. Ocelli radiant vt sydus. Ouid. Hi eies aste out beames of brightnesse as it were a starre.

A beame of the snnne or other bright starre: a rodde or yarde that the Genmetricians vse. A weauers shuttle, wherewith he throweth yarne into the webbe. The spoke of a wheele. An instrument to strike measures. Solis radij. Lucrt. Lumen radiorum. Lucr. Verbera radiorum. Lucret. Vires radiorum. Ouid. Acuti radij. Ouid. Ardentes radij. Lucr. Virg. Clari radij. Virg. Coruscis radijs insigne iubar. Ouid. Fulgentes radij. Virg. Lucidi. Sen. Micantes radij. Ouid. Tabifici radij Lucret. Sunne beames making snowe to mele and consume. Nubes ardens radijs. Vir. A cloude hauing shining beames. Calere radijs. Ouid. Erumpunt radij. Virg. Frigora excludunt radios. Stat. Ingruentes solis radios sentit luna. Plin. Nubes intertumpunt radios lucis. Lucret. Tiran retexit orbem radijs. Vir. The sunne beginneth again to lighten the world with his beames. Mare rubescebat radijs. Virg. Matutinis radijs subdita iuga. Ouid. Acutis radijs vallatus sol. Ouid. Radius. Plin. The brighnesse of the eies. Radius. Virg. A rod or yarde that the Geometricians vse. Describere radio cœli meatus. Virg. Radius ferreus. Plin. A rodde os yron. Radius. Virg. A weauers shuttle. Acutus radius. Ouid. Attriti manu radij. Clau. Radij quoque rotarum dicuntur. Pli. Spokes of wheeles. Radius. Plaut. A strike to strike measures. Radij. Virg. A kinde of long oliues. Radius. Cels. The short bone of the arme.

I. (Acc. to radius, I. B. 1.) V. a., to furnish with spokes: rota radiata, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 15.—

II. (Acc. to radius, II.) V. a. and n. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

A. Act., to furnish with beams, make beaming, irradiate; only in pass., to be irradiated, to gleam, emit beams.—Lit.: galeae gemmis radientur et auro, Ov. P. 3, 4, 103. — Esp. freq. in the part. perf. and P. a.: rădĭātus, a, um, furnished with rays, irradiated, shining: miles ut adverso Phoebi radiatus ab ictu, irradiated, Luc. 7, 214: rubent radiati lumina solis, shining, Lucr. 5, 462: sol, Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 126; cf. also: orbis flammeus solis, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: lumen (solis), Poët. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 162; Ov. M. 4, 193: insigne diei (i. e. sol), Lucr. 5, 699: caput, surrounded with a halo or nimbus (the attribute of deities and deified personages), Plin. Pan. 52; cf. corona, Suet. Aug. 94 med.: splendor radiatus lampade solis, Sil. 7, 143.—

B. Neutr., to emit beams, to beam, shine, radiate.

1. Lit.: felium in tenebris fulgent radiantque oculi, Plin. 11, 37, 55, 150; cf. Ov. Am. 3, 3, 9; id. M. 2, 4: miles radiabat in armis, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 27; Sil. 8, 468: radiabunt tempora nati (of the halo of deified personages, v. supra, A.), Sil. 3, 629; 2, 586. — Freq. in part. pres.: rădĭans, beaming, shining: lumina solis, Ov. Tr. 2, 325: sidera, Lucr. 4, 214; Ov. M. 7, 325; 9, 272: Aquarius, Cic. Arat. 172: luna, Verg. A. 8, 23: aurum, Ov. M. 4, 636; cf.: galea claro ab auro, id. ib. 13, 105: templa auro, id. A. A. 3, 451: arma, Verg. A. 8, 616: carbunculi pinnato fulgore, Plin. 37, 7, 25, 93. —

2. Trop., to shine, radiate: quasi de industriă prospera ejus (fortuna) adversis radiaret, Flor. 4, 2, 30 Halm. (Duker, radiarentur): ipsi inter medios roseā radiante juventā, Val. Fl. 8, 257: constitutio, quae inter imperiales radiat sanctiones, Just. Inst. 1, 5, 3: radiantia signa, asterisks, Hier. praef. in Psa.

I. In gen.: acuti radii immissi, stakes, Liv. 33, 5, 11: ferreus, Plin. 10, 42, 58, 117.—

B. In partic.

1. A spoke of a wheel, Plin. 16, 40, 76, 206; Verg. G. 2, 444; id. A. 6, 616; Ov. M. 2, 108; 2, 317; Val. Fl. 6, 414: inter radios rotarum, Curt. 4, 9, 5; Plin. 16, 40, 76, 206.—

2. In mathematics,

a. A staff, rod, for measuring, etc., Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 64; Verg. E. 3, 41; id. A. 6, 850; Macr. S. 7, 2; Tert. Idol. 9. —

b. A semidiameter, radius of a circle, Cic. Univ. 6. —

3. In weaving, a shuttle, Ov. M. 6, 56; 132; Lucr. 5, 1352; Verg. A. 9, 476.—

4. In zoology,

a. The spur of many kinds of birds, Plin. 11, 47, 107, 257; esp. of the cock, id. 30, 11, 29, 97. —

b. The sting above the tail of the fish pastinaca, Plin. 9, 48, 72, 155; 32, 2, 12, 25. —

5. In botany, a kind of long olive, Verg. G. 2, 86; Col. 5, 8, 4; id. Arb. 17, 3; Plin. 15, 3, 4, 13. A sub-species of the same, called radius major, Cato, R. R. 6, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 24.—

6. In anatomy, the radius, the exterior bone of the forearm, Gr. kerki/s, Cels. 8, 1. —

7. Radius virilis = membrum virile, Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 14, 115.—

II. A beam or ray of any shining object; of the sun, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 2; Lucr. 1, 48; 2, 117; Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 71; Verg. A. 4, 119; 7, 25; Tert. Res. Carn. 47; of lightning, Verg. A. 8, 429; Val. Fl. 6, 55; of the eyes, Gell. 5, 16, 2; of the halo around the heads of divine or deified personages: aurati, Verg. A. 12, 163; cf. radio, II.