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τομ-εύς , έως, ὁ, Dor. dat. pl. τομέεσσι (vv. ll. τομέσι, τομεσσι) Archim.Spir.25:—
A.one that cuts, a carver, Poll.6.13, etc.; “τ. σίδηρος” Max.277; “πέλεκυς αὐχένος τ.” Trag.Adesp.412; divider, ὁ ἀόρατος τ., i. e. God, Ph.1.498; as Adj., ὁ τ. λόγος ib.491.
2. shoemaker's knife, Pl.Alc.1.129c; edge of a knife, X.Eq.Mag.2.3.
3. forceps, gloss on τομεῖον, Gal.19.146.
4. pl. τομεῖς, οἱ, cutting-teeth, incisors, Anon.Lond.24.23, Cels.8.1, Gal. 2.754, Poll.2.91, Gp.16.1.13, Simp.in Cael.664.3.
II. Math., sector of a circle, Euc.6.33, Hero *Deff.34.
2. τ. στερεός sector of a sphere (intercepted by cone with vertex at centre), Archim.Sph. Sph.Cyl. 1 Def.5; but τ. ἐν τῇ ἐπιφανείᾳ, i.e. surface included betw. two great circles and a circle cutting each at right angles, Papp.268.1.
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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