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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Plēc'trum, n.

noun

n. [Lat., from Gr. πλῆκτρον, any thing to strike with, from πλήσσειν, to strike.]

  1. A small instrument, commonly of ivory, used by the ancients in playing upon the lyre.
  2. (Anat.) (a.) The styloid process of the temporal bone. (b.) The uvula. (c.) The tongue.