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πῆγμα , ατος, τό, (πήγνυμι)
A.anything fastened or joined together, framework, of a ship, κέλητος π. AP5.203 (Mel.); “τὸ π. τῆς σχεδίας” Ph.Byz.Mir.4.5; of a roof, Annuario 6/7.450 ; θύρα κέλλας, στοὰ σὺν πήγμασι, POxy.2146.9,12 (iii A. D.); τὸ τῶν ὀστέων π. LXX 4 Ma.9.21 ; τὸ πιοειδὲς π. Heliod. ap. Orib.49.33.5.
2. stage or scaffold used in theatres, Str.6.2.6, J.AJ14.15.5, BJ7.5.5, Juv.4.122, Suet.Claud.34, etc.
3. bookcase, Cic.Att.4.8.2.
4. metaph., π. γενναίως παγέν (Aurat. for πῆμα) bond in honour bound, A.Ag.1198 ; but also τὸ τῆς ὅλης π. σοφίας fabric, Ph.1.536.
II. anything congealed, τὸ π. τῆς χιόνος frozen snow, Plb.3.55.5 ; τὸ π. τῆς τροφῆς, i. e. fat, Ruf.Onom. 215 ; solid mass, ἔστη π., of the waters of Jordan, LXX Jo.3.16.
III. that which makes to curdle, as rennet does milk, Arist.HA516a4.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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