A.mark off with the τόρνος, make round, τορνώσαντο σῆμα they rounded off the barrow, Il.23.255; ὅσσον τίς τ᾽ ἔδαφος νηὸς τορνώσεται large as the bottom of a ship which a man shall round off, with allusion to the round shape of a merchant vessel (cf. γαῦλος), opp. to a ship of war, Od.5.249, cf. D.P.1170, Tryph.64.—Act. τορνῶσαι: περιγράψαι, κυκλῶσαι, Hsch., who also has Pass. τορνοῦμαι δὲ πρὸς μέτρον: ἀντὶ τοῦ περιγράφομαι (perh. a Trag. fragment).
τορν-όομαι ,
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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