lira

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

līra, ae, f. [perh. fr. lisa; O. H. Germ. Leisa; Germ. Geleise, a track or rut; cf. delirus],

I the earth thrown up between two furrows, a ridge : liras rustici vocant easdem porcas, cum sic aratum est, ut inter duos latius distantes sulcos medius cumulus siccam sedem frumentis praebeat, Col. 2, 4, 8: patentes liras facere, id. 2, 8, 3: proscissa lira, id. 2, 10; cf. id. 11, 3.—

II Transf., a furrow , acc. to Non. 17, 32; cf. lira, αὖλαξ, Gloss. Philox.

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