An earthen pot: a galley cup: sometime a lot that the Greekhs call Ostracus. Apta mero testa. Ouid. Ignem curta fert rustica testa Ouid. Lubrica testa. Ouid. Ise. Pia testa. Hor. An holy or good cup of wine. Testa. Vitru. Burnt tile: bricke. Testa tusa. Pli. Bricke or tile beaten to pouder. Testa oui vel limacis. Pla The shel of an egge or a snaile. Nariuæ testæ. Cic. Testæ. Hor. Al maner of shel fish. Testa. Cels. A peece of bone broken. Also a sharde of a potte or tile.

I. Lit., Cic. Dom. 23, 61; Cato, R. R. 18, 7; 18, 110; Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 6; Vitr. 2, 8 fin.; 7, 1; 7, 4; Aus. Parent. 11, 9.—

II. Transf.

A. A piece of baked earthen-ware, an earthen pot, pitcher, jug, urn, etc. (cf. testu): si Prometheus ... a vicinis cum testā ambulans carbunculos corrogaret, Auct. Her. 4, 6, 9: testā cum ardente viderent Scintillare oleum, a lamp, Verg. G. 1, 391: quo semel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem Testa diu, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 70; cf. Tib. 2, 3, 47: accipiat Manes parvula testa meos, Prop. 2, 13, 32 (3, 5, 16): vinum Graeca quod testā conditum levi, Hor. C. 1, 20, 2; 3, 21, 4: mihi fundat avitum Condita testa merum, Ov. A. A. 2, 696; Mart. 12, 48, 8; 12, 63, 2; 13, 7, 1; Plin. 31, 10, 46, 114.—Used in applause: audiat ille Testarum crepitus cum verbis, Juv. 11, 170 (cf. F. infra).—

B. A broken piece of earthen-ware, pottery, brick, etc.; a sherd, potsherd: dissipatis imbricum fragminibus ac testis tegularum, Sisenn. ap. Non. 125, 18: testa parem fecit, Ov. M. 8, 662: fulcitur testā mensa, Mart. 2, 43, 10; Plin. 32, 8, 28, 89; 35, 3, 5, 16; Tac. H. 5, 6; Prop. 4 (5), 7, 28; Juv. 3, 260.—Hence,

2. Transf., a piece of bone, Cels. 8, 16; so of fragments of a broken tooth, id. 6, 9 med.; 7, 22.—

C. Like o)/strakon, a sherd, potsherd, in the ostracism or judicial voting of the Greeks: testarum suffragiis, quod illi o)strakismo\n vocant, Nep. Cim. 3, 1; cf. also testula.—

D. The shell of shell-fish or of testaceous animals: genera beluarum ad saxa nativis testis inhaerentium, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 100: ostreae, Plin. 32, 6, 21, 60: muricum, id. 32, 7, 27, 84: cochlearum, id. 30, 8, 21, 66: testudinis, Varr. L. L. 5, 79 Müll. —Hence,

2. Transf.

a. A shell-fish: non omne mare generosae fertile testae, Hor. S. 2, 4, 31: marina, id. ib. 2, 8, 53.—

b. A shell or covering, in gen.: lubricaque immotas testa premebat aquas, i. e. an icy shell, covering of ice, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 38: lubrica, Poët. ap. Anthol. Lat. 2, p. 62 Burm.—

c. The skull: testa hominis, nudum jam cute calvitium, Aus. Epigr. 72; Prud. stef. 10, 761; Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 1; 2, 1 fin. (hence, Ital. testa and Fr. tēte).—

E. A brick-colored spot on the face, Plin. 26, 15, 92, 163; 48. 12, 50, 185.—

F. A sort of clapping with the flat of the hands (as if with two tiles), in token of applause, invented by Nero, Suet. Ner 20.