‖ dolium
(ˈdəʊlɪəm)
[Lat.; = a cask, jar.]
1. Rom. Antiq. A large earthenware jar or vessel, more or less spherical, for holding wine, oil, or dry commodities, etc.; hence, in mod. use, a cask.
| a 1483 Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 29 For everey of the Kalender of the yere, a dolium of wyne. 1658 tr. Porta's Nat. Magick iv. xxiii. 152 For every Dolium, powder one ounce of Allome. |
2. Zool. A genus of gastropod molluscs, having a ventricose shell; also called tun.
| 1752 Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 149 (Jod.) From the resemblance of the body of this shell to a vessel for the containing fluids, the genus has been named dolium. 1854 Woodward Mollusca (1856) 115 Dolium, Lam. The tun. 1878 Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 361. |