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μα^γ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, (μάσσω)
A.any kneaded mass, cake, LXX Jd.7.13; lump of fat, Dsc.2.76; esp. cake offered to Hecate and Trophonius, S. Fr.734, Ar.Fr.813; Cypr. acc. to Ath.14.663b; described as a small cheese-pudding, Hp.Mul.2.133, cf. Steril.235.
II. kneading-trough or dresser, Cratin.21, BGU40.8 (ii/iii A. D.), cf. Poll.10.81; small table, Epich.118, Cerc.12; also, round pan or plate for placing on the τρίπους, Poll.6.83.
III. μαγίδες: αἷς ἀπομάττουσι καὶ καθαίρουσι, Hsch.
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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