κεραία,
poetry κεν-αίη, ἡ, (κέρας)
horn, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
2)
antennae of the crayfish or of insects, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II)
anything projecting like a horn: hence,
II.1)
yard-arm, [
Refs 5th c.BC+], etc; κ. καθελέσθαι, ὑφιέναι, i.e.lower sail, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
II.1.b)
projecting beam of a crane, etc, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.1.c)
projecting parts of the hucklebone, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.1.d)
branching stake of wood, used as a
pale in a palisade, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
II.1.e)
horns of the ancilia, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.2)
plural,
horns of the moon, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.3) in writing,
apex of a letter, [
NT+4th c.BC+]; διὰ πάσης κ. διῆκον showing itself in every
word of a speech, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
II.4)
leg of a pair of compasses, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II.5)
projecting spur of a mountain, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; of the
horns of Europe and Africa at the Straits of Gibraltar, [
Refs 6th c.AD+];
arms of a harbour, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II.6) ={κέρας} see [
Refs],
wing of an army, [
Refs 3rd c.AD+]
II.7)
plural, supposed teat-like
projections inside the womb, [
Refs]; but the
Fallopian tubes, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
III)
bow made of horn, [
Refs 6th c.AD+]