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ὀχ-εία , ἡ, (ὀχεύω)
A.a covering or impregnating, of the male animal, X.Eq.5.8, PCair.Zen.225.4 (iii B. C.); ὀχείαν δέχεσθαι, προσίεσθαι, ὑπομένειν, of the female, Arist. GA748a21, al.; ὀχείαν ποιεῖσθαι, of the two, Id.HA540a2; περὶ τὰς ὀ. in the breeding season, Thphr. Od.61.
2. fertilization of plants, PRyl.172.21 (iii A. D., written ὠχ-).
II. (ὀχέω） ὀχεία ποντία holder of the ship, i. e. anchor, Trag.Adesp.251 (ap. Hsch., cf. ὀχεῖον II. 2).
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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