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(from ÷åßñ , the hand, and óçìáßíù , to indicate) is the wooden board which is struck by a mallet, in Oriental Greek churches, to summon the people to service. This is the usual call to worship for all classes in the East, in consequence of the prohibition -of bells by the Turks, who imagine that their sound drives away the good spirits.