A.= κρυόεις, chilling, horrible, “πολέμου . . ἐπιδημίου ὀκρυόεντος” Il.9.64 ; ἐμεῖο κυνὸς κακομηχάνου ὀκρυοέσσης (Helen loq.) 6.344 ; “ὀ. φόβος” A.R.2.607 ; ὀ. βᾶρις, of Charon's boat, AP7.67 (Leon.) ; “ἀταρπιτὸς ὀ.” Parm.(?)20 ; “ὀκρυόειν ἔδαφος” Eleg.Alex.Adesp. 1.7. (Freq. confused with ὀκρυόεις : ὀκρυόεις may have arisen from an early mistake in the division of words in Hom. (leg. ἐπιδημίοο κρυόεντος, κακομηχάνοο κ.) ; or ὀκ. may be cogn. with Skt. άσ´ρυ, Lith. ašara 'tear', and the Adj. would then mean tearful.）
ὀκρυ^όεις , εσσα, εν,
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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