τιλμός

τιλ-μός, ὁ,

• plucking or pulling out, of hair, A. Supp. 839 (pl., lyr.), Men. Epit. 472; also, pulling up, καλάμου POxy. 1692.10 (ii A.D.), 1631.9 (iii A.D.), cf. ὁλοτίλλω; joined with κνησμοί, as a symptom in sickness, Hp. Epid. 1.23 (pl.).
• • II extraction of fibre, σησάμου PCair.Zen. 787.21 (iii B.C.); τ. ὀσπρίων, evulsitio, Gloss.