Plumbum
(
μόλυβδος). Lead. (See
Metallum.) The name is applied to (
a) a water-pipe (see
Fistula); (
b) a bullet (see
Glans); (
c) the lumps on the lash
of a whip (see
Flagrum); (
d)
a plummet of lead for drawing lines; a
lead pencil (
Catull. 22, 8). See Beckmann,
Hist. of Inventions, ii.
p. 389
(London, 1846); and Thompson,
Greek and Latin Palaeography,
p. 53
(London, 1893).