α4250Ἀστράγαλος
knucklebone, astragal
Properly, the customary meaning; also the vertebra of the neck, and (the piece?) for playing the board-game pessoi; and a plant is so called. Finger-joint (wrist?): that which Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar,…
Ἀστράγαλος· κυρίως τὸ σύνηθες λεγόμενον· καὶ ὁ σπόνδυλος τοῦ τραχήλου, καὶ ὁ πεττικός· καὶ βοτάνη δὲ οὕτως καλεῖται. Ἀστράγαλος· καὶ ὃν ἐθεάσατο Βαλτάσαρ ὁ υἱὸς Ναβουχοδονόσορ ἐν…