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‖ psalterium|psæl-, sɒlˈtɪərɪəm|
[L. psaltērium, ad. Gr. ψαλτήριον psaltery, psalter.]
I.
1. = psaltery 1. (Not in Eng. use.)
1872Sacristy Aug. I. 201 The psalterium, which must not be confounded with the psalterion of the 13th century, was a little portable harp. 18..S. Kensington Art Handbk. No. 5. 35 The psalterium was a kind of lyre of an oblong square shape... It was played with a rather large plectrum.
2. = psalter 1 or 2. (Not in Eng. use.)
1882in Ogilvie: hence in later Dicts.
II.
3. Anat. and Zool. a. = lyra 4. Cf. psalloid. b. The third stomach of a ruminant; the omasum or manyplies.
1857Dunglison Med. Dict., Psalterium, Lyra. 1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Psalterium, another name for the Lyra. 1868Owen Vertebr. Anim. III. 473 The muscular walls..close the entry to the first and second cavities, and, drawing that of the psalterium, nearer to the gullet, conduct the remasticated bolus into the third cavity. 1871Huxley Anat. Vertebr. Anim. viii. 379 When this portion of the stomach is slit open, longitudinally, the lamellæ fall apart like the leaves of a book, whence it has received the fanciful name of the Psalterium from anatomists, while butchers give it that of Manyplies. 1879Wright Anim. Life 11 After the mass has been thoroughly ground down by the teeth, it is again swallowed, when it passes along the oesophagus into the third stomach, called the manyplies, or psalterium. |