Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pelecinon

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. 

PELECI'NON. One of the may kinds of sun-dials constructed by the ancients, supposed to have received the name from bearing a resemblance to the form of a "dove-tail" in carpentry, and thus to be derived from the Greek word πελεκῖνος, which has that signification; a conjecture rendered highly probable by the annexed example (Pelecinon/1.1), published by Lambecccio (Append. ad Lib. IV. Comment. p. 282.); the top of which is formed exactly like a dove-tail.

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  Pelecinon/1.1