单词 | strigil |
释义 | strigiln. 1. Ancient History. 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 transferred, a flesh-brush or other instrument used for the same purpose. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > strigil rubber1581 scraper1581 strigil1581 skin-scraper1864 raclette1887 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxiv. 121 Certaine scrapers called Strigiles. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 430 Rubbing with a kind of Strigil, which a naked youth puts on his hand like a glove of seales Skin, or what ever it be. 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor xvi. 51 We were rubbed with a mohair-bag fitted to the hand, which, like the antient strigil, brings away the gross matter perspired. 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 96/1 One day Hadrian recognized an old companion in arms in poverty, scraping himself with a tile instead of the strigil. 1854 F. W. Fairholt 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. 1887 D. Maguire Art of Massage (ed. 4) 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. 1894 J. Sturgis Bk. Song 8 Or naked Lysis, fresh from eager game, Draws down the strigil light o'er breast and limbs aflame. 2. Entomology. (See quot. 1873.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > general parts > organ having shape of strigil strigil1873 1873 F. 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’. 1910 G. 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. In combinations. ΚΠ 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 23 The strigil-shaped first phalanx of the index digit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1581 |
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