callosus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

callōsus, a, um, adj. [callum],

I with a hard skin , hard-skinned , thick-skinned , callous (not before the Aug. per.): ulcus, Cels. 6, 3: ulcera, Plin. 26, 14, 87, § 143: venter, id. 11, 37, 79, § 203: crassior callosiorque cutis, Plin. 11, 39, 92, § 226.—

II In gen., solid , hard , thick : ova, * Hor. S. 2, 4, 14: acini uvae, Col. 3, 1, 5: olivae, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 13: tactus, Pall. Sept. 17: orae (ulceris), Cels. 5, 28.

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