θυρίς

A. window, Praxill. 5, Ar. V. 379, Th. 797, Pl. R. 359d, Arist. de An. 404a4, Ath. 50.2, IG 11(2).161 D 101 (Delos, iii B.C.), BGU 1116.23 (i B.C.), Plu. 2.273b; window-frame, ἐναρμόσαι εἰς ἑκάστην τὴν θ. (opening) χαλκᾶς θ. (frames) IG 22.1668.37.

b. audience-window of the king or high officials in Egypt, UPZ 15.7, 16.20, 53.5 (ii B.C.), Heraclid.Cum. 4.

2. opening at each end of a bee's cell, Arist. HA 624a7.

3. valve of a bivalve fish, ib.529b7.

4. in pl., embrasures in battlements, IG 22.463.55, al.; for artillery, D.S. 20.91, D.C. 74.10.

II. in pl., planks, boards, Heraclid. Pont. ap. Ath. 12.521f; tablets, Hsch.

2. cell of wasps, Arist. HA 628a20, 629a30.