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1 acus
1.ăcus, ūs, f. [cf. 2. acer].I.A needle or pin, as being pointed, both for common use and ornament:“quasarcinatrix veletiam ornatrix utitur,” Paul. ex Fest. p. 9 Müll.A.Lit.:B.mirabar vulnus, quod acu punctum videtur,
Cic. Mil. 24.—Hence, acu pingere, to embroider, Verg. A. 9, 582; Ov. M. 6, 23; cf. Plin. 8, 48, § 191; Isid. Orig. 19, 22, 22.—Esp. a hair-pin:figat acus tortas sustineatque comas,
Mart. 14, 24:foramen acūs,
the eye of a needle, Vulg. Matt. 19, 24.—Also, a surgeon's needle, a probe, Cels. 7, 17.—Hence,Trop.: acu rem tangere, to touch the thing with a needle; in Engl. phrase, to hit the nail on the head, Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 19; so,II.to denote careful and successful effort: si acum quaereres, acum invenisses,
id. Men. 2, 1, 13.—The tongue of a buckle, Treb. Poll. Claud. 14.—III.I. q. acus, ĕris, Col. 2, 10, 40.—IV.An implement of husbandry, Pall. 1, 43, 2.2.ăcus, ĕris, n. (also, ūs, f., v. 1. acus, III.) [kindred with acus, ūs, Goth. ahana, old Norse agn, old Germ. Agana ], = achuron, the husk of grain and of pulse; chaff, Cato, R. R. 54, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 52; 57; 3, 9, 8.3.ăcus, i, m. [1. acus], a kind of sea-fish with a pointed snout, the hornpike or gar-pike (Gr. belonê):acus sive belone unus piscium, etc.,
Plin. 9, 51, 76, § 166:et satius tenues ducere credis acos,
Mart. 10, 37, 6; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 145, where belonae again occurs. (Some read una for unus in the passage from Plin., and acūs for acos in Mart., as if these forms belonged to 1. acus.)
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