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

A.bite, βρύχω gnash does not hold good), mostly pres.: fut. “βρύξω” Hp.Mul.1.2, Lyc.678: aor. “ἔβρυξα” Hp. Epid.5.86, Nic.Th.207, al., AP7.624 (Diod.), (ἐπ-) Archipp.35: aor. 2 “ἔβρυ^χε” AP9.252 (late, perh. impf.): for βέβρυ_χα, v. βρυχάομαι: —Pass., v. infr.:—eat greedily, gobble, γνάθος ἱππείη βρύκει champs the bit, Hom.Epigr.14.13; “ἑφθὰ καὶ ὀπτὰ [κρέα] . . βρύκειν” E. Cyc.358, cf. 372; “πρὸς ταῦτα βρύκετ᾽” Ar.Pax1315; bite, βρύκουσ᾽ ἀπέδεσθαι . . τοὺς δακτύλους biting, Id.Av.26; of smoke, ὀδὰξ ἔβρυκε “τὰς λήμας ἐμοῦ” Id.Lys.301; later, simply, devour, consume, Nic.Al. 489, al.; βρύξας, of the sea, is perh. f.l. for βρόξας in AP7.624 (Diod.): metaph., tear in pieces, devour, of a gnawing disease, “βρύκει” S.Tr.987 (lyr.); “βρύκει γὰρ ἅπαν τὸ παρόν” Cratin.58; “τὰ πατρῷα βρύκει” Diph. 43.27:—Pass., “ἀπόλωλα, τέκνον, βρύκομαι” S.Ph.745; “βρυχθεὶς ἁλί” AP9.267 (Phil.).

II. gnash or grind the teeth, “τοὺς ὀδόντας βρύχει” Hp.Mul.1.7, etc., cf. AP15.51 (Arch.); “τὸ στόμα β.” Babr.95.45; “β. τοὺς ὀδόντας ἐπί τινα” Act.Ap.7.54; also βρύχει alone, Hp. Mul.2.120; also intr., οἱ ὀδόντες βρύχουσι ib.1.36; “βρῦκον στόμα” Nic. Al.226, cf. Th.207, al.:—Med., “βρύχονται” Hp.Morb.Sacr.1 (prob.).