Gr. Antiq. Pl. lecythi. [ad. Gr. λήκυθος (whence late L. lēcythus).] A vase or flask with a narrow neck.
1857. Birch, Anc. Pottery (1858), I. 40. A small vase in the Museum … exactly resembles a lecythus, or oil cruse.
1889. Athenæum, 4 May, 575/3. Two white and black lecythi.
Hence Lecythoid a., resembling a lecythus.
1889. Athenæum, 4 May, 575/3. From the same tomb came … a black-figured lecythoid vase.
