socket

socket
subs.
Ar. στροφεύς, ὁ.
Of a joint: Ar. κοτῠληδών, ἡ.
Seizing him by the foot where the joint works in the socket: V. μάρψας ποδός νιν ἄρθρον ᾗ λυγίζεται (Soph. Trach. 779).

SOCKET

myxus (in a candlestick or lamp: i.e. the part in which the wick stood; Mart. 14 41): tubus (a tube): vagina (a sheath): theca (a case). Socket of the eye *cavum oculi.

socket:

I. The hollow of a candle-*stick: perh. myxa, Mart. 14, 41: *căvum candelabri.

II. In anatomy, any hollow place which receives or holds something else: the s. of the eye, *cavum oculi: s.s of the teeth, dentium loculamenta, Veg. Vet. 2, 32: also d. cavaturae, Marc. Emp. 12: s. of the hip-bone, acetabulum, Plin. 28, 11, 49, § 179. Phr.: he rolled the eyes out of their s.s, cavis evolvit sedibus orbes, Lucan 2, 184: cf. Ov. M. 14, 200: cf. ossa suis sedibus mota, Cels. 8, 10, 1, init.: to put out of s., luxare, Plin. extorquere, Sen. Ep.: cf. ejicere armum, Virg. Aen. 10, 893.

III. In architecture, a mortise: cardo femina (opp. cardo masculus, the tenon): Vitruv. 9, 6 (9), 11.

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βαλανοδόκη
the socket in a door-post to receive the βάλανος
κραίσκος
sockets
παράτυλος
socket for a τύλος
πυελίς
setting, socket of the stone
στροφεύς
the socket
φατνίον
socket
ἀλτρός
socket for
ἐμπυελίς
socket
ὁλμίσκος
socket of the hinge of a door