Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.thick, stout, bulky:

I. of things, χιόνα ἁ. πίπτουσαν ἰδεῖν falling thick, Hdt.4.31; τῶν ἀνθράκων οἱ ἁδρότατοι the most solid, Hp.Mul.2.133; κίονες ἁ. large, D.S.3.47; “τοὺς ἁδροτάτους τῶνλέμβων” Id.20.85:—strong, violent, “πόλεμος” Ar.Ra.1099; “τὰ ἁδρότατατῶν . . συμβάντων” Hell.Oxy.4.1; ῥεύματα full, swollen, Arist.Pr.949b5; of raindrops, Id.Mu.394a31 (Comp.); “δῆγμα” D.S.1.35; δωρεάστε καὶ τιμὰς ἁ. δοῦναι in abundance, Id.19.86; κοιλότης severe deficiency, Phld.Oec.p.71 J.:—of style, powerful, Longin.40.4 (Comp.), cf. Phld.Rh.1.182 S.; ἁ. νοήματα dub. in D.H.Comp.4; “ἀπειλή” Phld. Hom.p.35 O.; τὸ ἁ. the grand style, opp. τὸ ἰσχνόν, Ps.-Plu.Vit.Hom. 72. Adv., Comp. ἁδροτέρως, διαιτᾶν live more freely, Hp.Aph.1.7; ἁ. φαρμακεύειν ib.4.9; neut. as Adv., ἁδρὸν γελάσαι laugh loud, Antiph. 144; ἁδρότερον πιεῖν drink more deeply, Diph.5.

II. of persons, fine, well-grown, “ἐπεὰν τὸ παιδίον ἁ. γένηται” Hdt.4.180; “τῷ παιδί, ἐπὴν ἁ. ἔῃ” Hp.Genit.2; “τῶν παίδων ὅσοι ἁ.” Pl.R.466e; οἱ -ότεροι the bestgrown, the stronger, Isoc.12.110; οἱ ἁ. chiefs, princes, LXX 4 Ki.10.6; also “ἁ. τὴν ψυχήν” Democh.3; “ἡ κατὰ ψυχὴν ἁ. ὑπεροχή” Procl.in Alc.p.94 C.

2. of animals, fine, fat, “χοῖρος” X.Oec.17.10; “λύκος” Babr.101; freq. in Com. of flesh, fish, etc., Antiph.20.5, 26.21, Alex. 170, etc.

3. of fruit or corn, full-grown, ripe, “ὅκως εἴη καρπὸς ἁ.” Hdt.1.17, cf. Arist.Metaph.1017b8.

b. ἁ. ῥίζα, = ἀριστολοχεία στρογγύλη, Ps.-Dsc.3.4.

c. of an egg, ready to be laid, Arist. HA559b11 (Comp.).—First in Hdt., never in Trag., rare in Att.; but the derivs. ἁδροτής, ἁδροσύνη occur in Ep. and ἁδρύνω in Trag.