Also 7 lolligo. [a. L. lolīgo.] A genus of cephalopods; an individual of this genus, a squid. ¶ In the first quot. used fig. and app. by mistake for torpedo.
a. 1626. Bp. Andrewes, 96 Serm., O Holy Ghost, xv. (1629), 763. St. Paul calls them the Lolligoe’s of the Land. His word is καταναρκεῖν; the six daies and the seventh, to them both alike.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, v. 69. The cuttle-fish and Loligo.
[1706. Phillips, Loligo (Lat.), the Calimary Fish, whose Bloud is like Ink, as well as that of the Cuttle-fish.]
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 540/1. In Loligo the coats of the corresponding veins … present … a spongy thickening.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm. (1858), 467. The loligo … laid hold of the pebbles, apparently to render its abduction as difficult as possible.
