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χνόος , ὁ （ἡ E.Fr.1106), Att.contr. χνοῦς , gen. χνοῦ: heterocl. gen.
A.“χνοός” Choerob. in Theod.1.234H.; dat. “χνοΐ” Thphr.CP6.10.7, Gal.13.850:—ἁλὸς χ. incrustation from salt water, ἔκ κεφαλῆς ἔσμηχεν ἁλὸς χνόον, Od.6.226; wool pulled for stuffing cushions, flock, f.l. for μνοῦς in Hp.Mul.1.61; used in applying a powder, Gal. l.c.; chaff, LXXPs.1.4: powder, prov., [“ὄνος] εἰς ἄχυρα καὶ χνοῦν” Ar.Fr.76; dust of the earth, LXX 2 Ki.22.43, 2 Ch.1.9; ὡς δοκεῖν τοῦ καλουμένου χνοῦ μεστοὺς εἶναι (sc. τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς) Gal.16.552.
II. fine down on a flower or in the seed-vessel, Thphr.HP2.8.4, D.S.2.59:bloom on fruit, “ἐν Καρίᾳ φασὶν ἄπιόν τιν᾽ ἔχειν χνοῦν ἁλμώδη” Thphr.CP6.10.7; “μάλων χνοῦς ἐπικαρπίδιος” AP9.226 (Zon.); the first down on the chin or cheeks, “χνοῦς ὥσπερ μήλοισιν ἐπήνθει” Ar.Nu.978 (anap.); “κοῦρος ἔτ᾽ ἀρτιγένειον ἔχων χνόον” AP9.219 (Diod.); “θηλείαις οὐδ᾽ ὅσσον ἐπὶ χνόος ἦλθε παρειαῖς” Call.Ap.37; “ἐντίκτει τι χνοῦ ἀνάπλεων” Arist.HA605b15: pl., D.H.Dem.51.
2. metaph., bloom or film of archaism in writing, ὅ τε πίνος αὐτῇ (i.e. in Plato's style) [καὶ χ.] ὁ τῆς ἀρχαιότητος . . ἐπιτρέχει interpol. in D.H.Dem.5; ἐπανθεῖ τις . . χνοῦς ἀρχαιοπινής ib.38, cf. Plu.2.79d; οἱονεὶ τῆς γονίμου φύσεως χ., of χλόη, Porph.Abst.2.5. (Cf. χνιαρωτέρα, χνίει.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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