GYN 
A native of Afia, and in length not excéeding a .fpan. 
The head depreffed, fmoothifh, with five hollow dots, and a 
fmall hole in a the Saint 5 infone the noftrils two truncated 
ill-covers at the fides with a 
GYNECEUM, among the Ancients, the —_ of 
the women ; or a feparate place, in of the 
houfe, where the women keep = TN pare ‘ehplelid 
t 
in their {pinning, out of the fight of the men 
The word is compounded of the Greek, wr a a 
and ox, a hou/e. 
‘Under the Roman emperors there was a partitulis site. 
blifhment of gynecea, being a kind of manufa¢tories managed 
y by) women, for the “making of clothes, furniture, &c. 
fs the emperor’s houfhold. Mention is made of thefe gynzcea, 
n the Theodofian ae: Juttinian code, and by divers other 
1S. 
Ini utiaton of thefe, divers of the — cima nett 
particularly thofe of filk, where a num omen and 
poi are aflociated and ‘formed into a ‘body, are called 
*GYNACIARIUS, a workman employed in the 
im. In the ancient there were men to 
gynzecer gynecea 
weave = pets the reit, as {pmning, &c. being performed 
Crithingla were fometimes coe to ferve in the 
gynecea, much as now in the ; frequently, alfo, this 
was a kind of fervice which wrote aeatia of their fubjects 
or vaflals, both men and women, whom they made to work 
them in their gynzcea. - 
rete ear SMI, Peveuxoxoc io in Antiquity, Athenian 
tes, w > bufeets it-was to regulate the women’s 
apparel ac seco to the rules of modefty and decency. See 
GYNZICOCRATUMENI, an ancient people of 
Sarmatia Europea, inhabiting she ealtern banks of the river 
near its opening into the Palus Mzotis ; thus called, 
as authors r elate, becaufe they had no women among 
ae ~ or, po ay poar they were under the dominion of 
"The. word is formed of yw», qweman, and ——— van- 
anaes of xparew, I overcome, q. d. overcome by w 
F. Hardouin, in is notes on Pliny, fa rng ee 
thus called, becaufe, after a battle which they lott a 
the Amazons, o on the banks of the Thermodoon, t 
cliged to hae a venereal commerce with them, in ce: ge 
get children : «Et quod vidtricibus obfequantur ad 
Procurandum eis fobolem.’? 
_ Hardouin calls them the hufbands .of the Amazons, 
onnubia ; for, as the au 
pr mutt be retrenched ‘ts Pliny, having been foiited into 
’ text by people’ who. were not mafters of the author’s 
pny inde Amazonum connubia. 
png so Amazons fora falulous people, will 
cratumenians. 
of the 
GYNECOCR Ar, GYN XCOCRATIA, a oat-go- 
pettic 
rte a ftate Where eimen bieve, or may have, the 
‘Gpreme command. : 
rere em and sapere, 
nti pot remy happyy 
thor obferves, the word cies 
gynacoeracies s a 
Dot gynacocratic: 
Se aman ad ty +. Pirfliras bis 
GYN. , 
xprefs a man whofe 
women, and afford ‘ 
bears a term ufed by the ancients, to é 
— are large and turgid, like tholé 0 
of 
{t was an obfervation amon ‘a ancients: that fuch “men 
were haturally impotent. Paulus Aigir 
the breatts of men as well as wome 
of the breatts gave a fufpicion of i impo- 
o laboured under that eharrnity ufually 
a very painful operation in furgery to get 
rid of it. An incifion was made in the form of a cref- 
cent in the lower part of the breaft, then the fkin being 
drawn back, the fat was taken out, and the. lips of the 
wound healed by means of a future. When deike Fealts 
were very large and hung down, they made two incifiote, 
within the other, ye at the extremities, and then 
leganaioe all the fkin betwe 
fat : and finally, i 
femmes the oe imper 
ECON; in i tactale Geka a fea-port of $e 
drotia. gt, 
GYNZECONOMUS, the name of a ma agiftra 
Athens, who had the cenfure and infpection ‘of, the 
Phe. word is oy ee of the Greek yu», yurasnoss 
— an Pbange ¢} law. 
iene yneconomi ; wt bufinefs was: to ins 
form shesaleltce of the lives nners of the ladics of 
that city, and to punith ‘foch as vlkcloeall themfelves; 
or nay se or the common bounds of modeity and de 
cency. 
forfeiture, ance, or other becathpsc 
GYN penances or in Ancient — a town of 
: gee f a fom of. Egypt. Strabo. 
pa sited u writers of medicine; - 
a for the menfirua, a bscicbienee for the fochia: 
NANDRIA, in Botany, from ym, a woman, “and 
Bn a man, alluding to the ftamens Lyre Sees 
growing a of, the piftil; the 2oth cla 
arti em. included in this clafs all plants 
of ‘which ‘die parts in pa were in any fenfe united: 
le of the flower. Thus Pa; ; whofe 
rmen is elevated on a columnar bafis, and 
nese into the fummit of the fame part, jul below eg 
red as Gynandrous. Such a pr 
tended with great inconveniences, as in Gretvia, fome = 
of w have a confiderable elevation of the 
It is Sea therefore by far 
not to confider ore union: 
vlaah n or above —— dt, in other ar 
ef grow out of t ; Or 
pater he d Se ec natural i and 
