Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Myxa

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MYX'A or MYX'US (μύξα, μυκτήρ). A word borrowed from the Greek, signifying literally the humour which discharges from the nostrils; whence it is applied in both languages to designate the nozzle of an oil lamp through which the wick protrudes; as shown on the left side of the annexed example (Myxa/1.1). Mart. xiv. 41.

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  Myxa/1.1