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strigil|ˈstrɪdʒɪl|
[ad. L. strigilis, f. strig-, stringĕre to touch lightly (see stricture n.).
The cognate pop.L. *strigula, curry-comb, is represented by It. stregghia, OF. estrille (mod.F. étrille); it was adopted in OHG. as strigil (mod.G. striegel).]
1. Antiq. An instrument with a curved blade, for scraping the sweat and dirt from the skin in the hot-air bath or after gymnastic exercise. Also applied transf. to a flesh-brush or other instrument used for the same purpose.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxiv. (1887) 123 Certaine scrapers called Strigiles. a1700Evelyn Diary June 1645, Being rubbed with a kind of strigil of seal's-skin, put on the operator's hand like a glove. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 63 We were rubbed with a mohair-bag fitted to the hand, which, like the ancient strigil, brings away the gross matter perspired. 1843Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 96/1 One day Hadrian recognized an old companion in arms in poverty, scraping himself with a tile instead of the strigil. 1854Fairholt Dict. Terms Art, Strigil, an instrument of bronze, curved, and hollowed like a spoon, used by the Romans to scrape off perspiration from the body after bathing. 1887D. Maguire Art of Massage ii. 19 Our masseurs of to-day use an instrument similar to the strigil made of box or any other hard wood, and call it sometimes strigil or raclette. 1894J. Sturgis Bk. Song 8 Or naked Lysis, fresh from eager game, Draws down the strigil light o'er breast and limbs aflame.
2. Ent. (See quot.)
1873F. B. White in Entomol. Monthly Mag. X. 60, I found that the males of certain species [of Corixa] were provided with a curious structure... As this structure bears some resemblance to a ‘curry-comb’ it may be styled..the ‘strigil’ or ‘strigiliform organ’. 1910G. H. Carpenter Hemiptera in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 261/1 The sixth segment [of the male Corixa] bearing on its upper side a small stalked plate (strigil)..furnished with rows of teeth.
3. Comb.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life 23 The strigil-shaped first phalanx of the index digit. |