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|lshtext=<b>ĕchīnus</b>: i, m., = [[ἐχῖνος]]>,<br /><b>I</b> a [[hedgehog]], urchin.<br /><b>I</b> Prop., [[usually]] the ([[edible]]) [[sea]]-urchin, [[Echinus]] [[esculentus]], Linn.; Varr. L. L. 5, § 77 Müll.; Afran. ap. Non. 216, 11; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 100 sq.; Hor. Epod. 5, 28; id. S. 2, 4, 33; 2, 8, 52; id. Ep. 1, 15, 23; Petr. 69, 7.—The [[land]]-urchin ([[otherwise]] called [[erinaceus]]), Claud. Idyll. 2, 17; cf. Isid. Orig. 12, 6, 57.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of things having a [[similar]] [[shape]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[copper]] [[vessel]] for the [[table]], perh. to [[wash]] [[out]] the cups in, a rinsing-[[bowl]], Hor. S. 1, 6, 117, v. Heindorf, ad h. l.; id. ib. 2, 8, 52.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> The [[prickly]] [[husk]] of a chestnut, Calp. Ecl. 2, 83; Pall. Insit. 155.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In archit., an [[ornament]] under the chapiter of a [[Doric]] or Ionic [[column]], an [[echinus]], Vitr. 4, 3, 4; 4, 7, 3; cf. Müller, Archaeol. § 277.