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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] ointment for wrestlers, the place for wrestling, fr.

κηροῦν

to wax over, fr.

κηρόσ

wax.]

The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

(Anc. Arch.)

That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

(Zool.)

The cere of birds.

ceroma ‎(plural ceromata)

A mixture of oil and wax.
A cloth with which ancient wrestlers rubbed themselves, to make their limbs not only more sleek and less capable of gripping, but more pliable and fit for exercise.

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.