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‖ gladius|ˈgleɪdɪəs|
[L. gladius.]
1. A sword. nonce-use.
1873Burton Hist. Scot. I. i. 6 Charge them with the gladius.
2. The sword-fish (so called by Pliny).
c1520Andrewe Noble Lyfe xv. in Babees Bk. 234 Gladius is a fisshe so named because he is mouthed after the fascyon of a sworde poynt.
3. Anat. ‘The horny endoskeleton or pen of cuttle-fishes’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885).
1872Nicholson Palæont. 295 Dibranchiate Cephalopods.—Fam. 3. Teuthidæ.—Shell consisting of an internal horny ‘pen’ or ‘gladius’, composed of a central shaft and two lateral wings. |