lock (subs.) Copy link Outline I. For making fastII. A kind of weirIII. Of hair, wool, etc.1. crīnis, is, m. (of hair2. floccus (of wool)IV. Of a gunV. Stoppage • lock (subs.): I. For making fast: no exact word, our locks being unknown to the ancients (v. bolt). Phr.: to be kept under l. and key, esse sub clavi, Varr. R. R. 1, 22, fin.; sub [signo] claustrisque positum esse, Cic. Agr. 1, 7, 21. II. A kind of weir: piscina: Plin. 3, 5, 9 § 53 (for navigation). III. Of hair, wool, etc.: 1. crīnis, is, m. (of hair: usu. collect. or pl.): the sing. occurs of a single l., Virg. Aen. 4, 698: to comb one's l.s, diducere pectine crines, Ov. M. 4, 311. perfumed l.s, myrrheus c., Hor.: Virg. 2. floccus (of wool): Varr. R. R. 2, 11, med. See also curl. IV. Of a gun: *igniārium (suggested in Kr.). V. Stoppage: Phr.: things would have been at a dead l., undique materies (the matter of which the earth consists) stipata quiesset, Lucr. 1, 346.