Antiq. [L.] A large dish.
1857. Birch, Anc. Pottery (1858), II. 317. The catinus was large enough to hold the tail of a tunny, the lanx could hold a crab.
1864. Q. Rev., July, 235. The magnificent silver ‘lanx’ or dish, weighing 150 ounces, which was found in 1734 at Corstopitum.
