Mucro, impropriè aliquando ponitur pro ense. Fastigia tenuia mucronum Lucr. Aptato mucrone incubuit ferro. Ouid.Setting the point at hir breast shee fell downe on the sworde.Acutus mucro. Claud. Asper mucro. Lucan. Breuibus habiles mucronibus enses. Sil. Ital. Coruscus mucro.Stat.A glistring sworde.Cruentus mucro.Cic.Cultratus mucro, Vide CVLTER.Ferreus.Virg.Flexis mucronibus vnca. Lucre. Hebeti mucrone retusum. Lucre. Longo mucrone ensis.Senec. Coruscare mucronem, Vide CORVSCO.Stricto mucrone constitit. Oui. He stoode with a sword readie drawne.Ferire aliquem mucrone.Virg.Figere mucrones in aliquo. Cice. Migrare in mucronem, Vide MIGRO.Reijcere mucrones aliquorum ingulis nostris. Ci. To kept from vs the violence of some that intende to kill vs.Resoluere iugulum mucrone.Ouid.To cut the throat wyth a sworde.Retundere mucronem alicuius.Cic.To rebate ones sworde.Corusco mucrone stricta fertiacies.Virg.Subire mucronem.Virg.Transijt & parmam mucro.Virg. Mucro, etiam pro quarumuis rerÛ sum mo acumine. Vnde apud Plinium, Herbarum mucrones dicuntur, & Herbæ in mueronem desinentes. Hearbes ending with a sharpe point.Mucro dentium. Plin. Mucro vnguium. Plin. The point of the nailes.Mucro faucium alicuius loci. Pli. lib. 6. cap. 13. Mucro defensionis, per translationem.Cic.The thiefe point of ones defence, that toucheth the matter nearest.Mucronem tribunitium exacuere.Cic.To incense the furie or authoritie of the tribunes against one.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mucro, ōnis, m., a sharp point or edge; esp., the point of a sword, the sword's point (class.; cf.: acies, cuspis). I.Lit.: mucro falcis, Col. 4, 25, 1: dentis, Plin. 8, 3, 4, 8: folii, id. 16, 10, 16, 38: crystalli, id. 37, 2, 9, 26: cultri,
edge
, Juv. 14, 216: medio jugulaberis ensis,
sword's point
, Ov. M. 12, 484: coruscus, Verg. A. 2, 333.—B.Transf.1.A sword: nisi mucrones militum tremere voltis, Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6: mortalis, Verg. A. 12, 740.—2.A point, extremity, end (poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Lucr. 2, 520: faucium, Plin. 6, 13, 15, 38.—II.Trop., edge, point, sharpness: censorii stili, Cic. Clu. 44, 123: tribunicius, id. Leg. 3, 9, 21: defensionis tuae, id. Caecin. 29, 84: ingenii,