pecten — Lewis & Short
pecten, ĭnis, m.pecto,
I a comb.
I Prop., for the hair, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 18; Ov. Am. 1, 14, 15:
deducit pectine crines,id. M. 4, 311; 12, 409; Petr. 126; Spart. Hadr. 26.—
II Transf., of things resembling a comb.
A The reed or sley of a weaver's loom:
arguto tenues percurrens pectine telas,Verg. A. 7, 14; Ov. F. 3, 819; cf. id. M. 6, 58; Varr. L. L. 5, 23, § 113.—
2 The weaver's art, weaving:
victa est Pectine Niliaco jam Babylonis acus,Mart. 14, 150, 2.—
B An instrument for heckling flax or combing wool, a comb, card, heckle, Juv. 9, 30; Plin. 11, 23, 27, § 77; Claud. Eutr. 2, 382.—
C A rake:
tonsam raro pectine verrit humum,Ov. R. Am. 191; Plin. 18, 30, 72, § 297; Col. 2, 20.—
D A clasping of the hands in distress, Ov. M. 9, 299.—Of the mingling of the oars of two vessels:
mixtis obliquo pectine remis,Luc. 3, 609 dub. (al. pectore).—
E Pecten dentium, a row of teeth, Prud. stef. 10, 934.—
F A stripe or vein in wood, Plin. 16, 38, 73, § 185.—
G The hair of the pubes, Juv. 6, 370; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 26.—Also, the sharebone, Cels. 8, 1.—
H A kind of dance:
Amazonius,Stat. Achill. 2, 156.—
K An instrument with which the strings of the lyre were struck:
jamque eadem digitis, jam pectine pulsat eburno,Verg. A. 6, 647 Serv.; Juv. 6, 382.—
2 Transf.
a A lyre, Val. Fl. 3, 159.—
b A poem or song:
dum canimus sacras alterno pectine Nonas,i. e. in distichs, Ov. F. 2, 121.—
L A kind of shell-fish, a scallop:
pectinibus patulis jactat se molle Tarentum,Hor. S. 2, 4, 34; Plin. 9, 33, 51, § 101; 9, 51, 74, § 160; 11, 37, 52, § 139; 11, 51, 112, § 267; 32, 11, 53, § 150.—
M Pecten Veneris, a plant, perh. Venus's comb, needle-weed, Plin. 24, 19, 114, § 175.