scincus

scincus [CL < σκίγκος = lizard] 1 (understood as) kind of fish, perh. resembling (water) lizard. b (in gl., spec. as) prawn (Leander serratus) or shrimp (Crangon vulgaris). pruritum, carnem, Venerem, male relligioni / conveniens, stinchus excitat, urit, alit Neckam DS III 504; fluminei pisces ‥ / quorum prefectus lucius ‥. mussat / roscia, discurrit gobio, stincius [vv. ll. stinctus, stincus] hebet Garl. Epith. VIII 546; detur dyasatirion acuatum cum stincis ‥. stincorum transmarinorum quantitas data cum ovo sorbili multum efficax est Gilb. VII 287. 1; confortantia renes sunt ‥ radix satirion, cauda stinchorum, fistici Gad. 76v. 2; ~i pisces ‥ qui in fontibus et maxime in aquis dulcibus inveniuntur MS BL Add. 15236 f. 21; stinctus piscis est similis lacerte aquatice SB 41; orchis ‥ dicitur multas vires coeundi excitare, sicut stincus [v. l. ~us] Alph. 131; ~us piscis est similis lacerte aquatice, qui juxta montem Pessolanum invenitur. hic autem salitus et desiccatus ad venereos usus operatur Ib. 175; 1451 item in uno dentriculo et stinco dat' H. Vavasour in die sancte Scolastice virginis Arch. Hist. Camb. I 466; cauda stincorum, qui sunt pisciculi fluviorum Egipti Kymer 19 p. 558; a prane, fishe, carides, -is †tingus [l. stingus] Levins Manip. 19.  b prane, fysch, stingus, -gi PP; schrymp, fysh, stingus, -i PP. 2 (in gl., understood as) kind of plant, (perh.) kind of orchid (Orchis) or sim. (perh. by conf. w. satyrion, q. v., which often appears in the same med. recipes or preparations, cf. quot. at 1a supra). stinctum, i. satirion, A. sanycle WW.