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γλυφ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, in early writers always pl. γλυφίδες (but sg., opp. ἀκίς, of the constellation Sagitta, Hipparch.2.5.12),
A.notched end of the arrow, “ἕλκε δ᾽ ὁμοῦ γλυφίδας τε λαβὼν καὶ νεῦρα” Il. 4.122; “ἕλκεν νευρὴν γλυφίδας τε” Od.21.419; “γλυφίδες μέσσῃ ἐγκάτθετο νευρῇ” A.R.3.282; but perh. of notches or grooves for the fingers, “παρὰ τὰς γλυφίδας περιειλίξαντες καὶ πτερώδαντες τὸ βυβλίον” Hdt.8.128, cf. Aen.Tact.31.26; τόξων πτερωταὶ γλυφίδες, poet. for the arrow itself, E.Or.274, cf. AP5.57 (Arch., sg.): also in pl., notches in the arrow-head, Paul.Aeg.6.88.
II. pen-knife, AP6.62 (Phil.), 64 (Paul. Sil., pl.).
2. chisel, J.BJ5.5.2.
III. in Architecture, capitals of columns, “θριγκὸς . . λαΐνεος χαλκέῃσιν ἐπὶ γλυφίδεσσιν ἀρήρει” A.R.3.218, cf. Sch. adloc., EM235.13.
IV. in pl., = θαλάμαι, Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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