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

A.graceful, delicate, pretty, “παρθένος” Hes.Fr.218; “παῖς, Ἔρως” Anacr.17,65; “ἄβραι Χάριτες” Sapph.60; esp. of the body, σῶμα, πούς, etc., Pi.O.6.55, E.Tr.506; neut. pl., “ἁβρὰ παρηίδος” Ph.1486; of women, A.Fr.313, S.Tr.523; ἁ. ἄθυρμα, of a pet dog, IG14.1647 (Lipara): of things, splendid, “στέφανος, κῦδος, πλοῦτος” Pi.I.8.65, O.5.7, P.3.110: of style, graceful, pretty, “λόγος” Hermog.Id.2.5; freq. with a notion of disparagement, dainty, luxurious; hence, ἁβρὰ παθεῖν live delicately, Sol.24.4, Thgn.474; a common epithet of Asiatics, Hdt.1.71, etc.; “Ἰώνων ἁβρὸς . . ὄχλος” Antiph. 91; “Ἀγάθυρσοι -ότατοι ἀνδρῶν” Hdt.4.104. Adv. “ἁβρῶς, ψάλλειν” Anacr.17; “ὑμνεῖν” Stesich.37; βαίνειν step delicately, Sapph.5, E.Med. 831: neut. sg. as Adv., “ἁβρὸν βαίνοντες” E.Med.1164; neut. pl., “ἁβρὰ γελᾶν” Anacreont.41.3, 42.5: Comp. “ἁβροτέρως, ἔχειν” Hld.1.17.—Chiefly poet., never in old Ep.; rare in early Prose, X.Smp.4.44, Pl.Smp.204c, Clearch.4. [α^ by nature, cf. E.Med.1164, Tr.820.]