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n. An instrument used in ancient Greece and Rome for scraping the skin after a bath.

n. a grooming tool used to scrape away dead skin, oil, dirt, etc.

n. An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.

n. An instrument of metal, ivory, or horn, used by the ancients for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium; a flesh-scraper. See cut under Lysippan.

n. A flesh-brush, or a glove of hair-cloth, rough toweling, or other article used for stimulating the skin by rubbing.

n. In entomology: A pectinated spur on the legs of certain insects (bees, wasps, ants, bugs, etc.), used for removing foreign substances from the surface of the body. See strigilis.

n. A curious asymmetrical organ composed of rows of black, closely packed, comb-like plates found on one side of the dorsal surface of the terminal abdominal segments of the males of certain Corisidæ.

"They likewise made use of the instrument called strigil, which was a kind of flesh-brush; a custom to which Persius alludes in this line,"

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