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ψαίρω , only pres., and not in Att. Prose: (v. ψάω):
I. trans., graze, brush lightly, touch gently, οἶμον αἰθέρος ψαίρει πτεροῖς . . οἰωνός is ready to skim the path of ether, A.Pr.396; rub, scrape gently in washing, Eun.VSp.486B.
II. intr., move lightly or quiver, flutter, palpitate, of an irregular pulse and the like , Hp.Mul.2.120: hence, rustle, murmur, of the rustling of leaves in the breeze, Luc. Trag.315; of stars, twinkle, Nic.Th.123.
2. “ψαίρειν λέγομεν τὸ ἱστίον ὅταν ἐλαφρῶς διαπνέηται” Hsch. s.v. διαψαίρουσι.
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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