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.
lock (v.) Copy link Outline 1. occlūdo, si, sum, 3 (to prevent access)2. conclūdo, 3 (to shut up or confine in any way)3. exclūdo, 3 (to shut out in any way) • lock (v.): 1. occlūdo, si, sum, 3 (to prevent access): to l. a door from the outside, (ostium) foris oc., Pl. Most. 2, 1, 58: on the inner side a door could be fastened without a key: cf. Pl. l. c. v. 77: one for whom nothing is sealed or l.'d, cui nihil sit nec obsignatum nec occlusum, Cic. de Or. 2, 61, 248: to l. up a house, aedes oc., Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 14. 2. conclūdo, 3 (to shut up or confine in any way): v. to shut up. 3. exclūdo, 3 (to shut out in any way): strengthened by foras (to turn out of doors), Pl. Mil. 4, 1, 30. Phr.: to be kept l.'d up, sub clavi esse, Varr. R. R. 1, 22, fin. See also to confine, imprison.
LOCK Copy link • LOCK 1. An instrument for fastening, claustrum. ☞ The ancients used a bolt or bar in the place of our lock and key; in some cases they had a contrivance, by means of a thong with a loop or hook, for removing the bolt from the outside of a door; sometimes, also, they employed a seal; e.g., Plaut., Cas., 2, 1, 1, obsignate cellas, referte annulum ad me; as if one should say, lock them up and bring the key to me. To put under lock and key, sub signo et claustris ponere. A wear; dam, objectaculum (Varr.). A tuft of hair, cirrus (natural): cincinnus (artificial): annulus (ringlet). Part of a gun, *igniarium. 2. v. To fasten with a lock, claustrum objicere alicui rei: to lock up, claudere; concludere. ☞ The ancients sometimes employed a seal instead of a lock and key; hence the classical phrases, signare: obsignare: annulo vindicare: to lock up in anything, concludere, includere (to shut in) in re: to lock one’s self up in Ike house, se includere domi: to lock anyone up (in prison), aliquem in custodiam includere. To trig (a wheel), (rotam) sufflamipare (Sen.).