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τα^κερός , ά, όν, (τα^κῆναι, τήκω)
A.melting in the mouth, tender, “ἀκροκώλια” Ar.Fr.4, Hp.Mul.2.169; “σχελίδες τακερώταται” Pherecr.108.13; “τακεροὺς ποιῆσαι τοὺς ἐρεβίνθους” Id.84, cf. Hp.Aff.56, Gal.6.498, al.; “τακερὰ μηκάδων μέλη” Antiph.1.4; “τ. ποιεῖν τὰ κρέα” Dionys.Com. 3.7; τ. πόδες as food for invalids, Herod.Med.in Rh.Mus.58.95,98, 100.
2. metaph., melting, languishing, “Ἔρως” Anacr.169; “τακέρ᾽ ὄμμασι δερκόμενος” Ibyc.2; “ὡς τακερὸν . . καὶ μαλακὸν τὸ βλέμμ᾽ ἔχει” Philetaer.5; “τακεραῖς λεύσσουσα κόραις” AP9.567 (Antip.); “τακερὸν βλέπεις βλέμμα” Alciphr.1.28; “τ. τι ἐν τοῖς ὄμμασιν πάθος ἀνυγραίνων” Luc.Am.14. Adv. -ρῶς meltingly, of the nightingale's song, “ἑλίττειν τὸ μέλος” Ael.NA5.38.
II. Act., serving to dissolove, soft, “ὕδατα ἕψειν ἄριστα καὶ -ώτατα” Hp.Aër.7.
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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