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Webster 1913 Edition
Ceroma
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Ce-ro′ma
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] ointment for wrestlers, the place for wrestling, fr.
κηροῦν
to wax over, fr. κηρόσ
wax.] 1.
The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.
2.
(Anc. Arch.)
That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.
3.
(Zool.)
The cere of birds.