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δρομ-άς , άδος, ὁ, ἡ,
A.running, “πρός δ᾽ ἔβαν δρομὰς ἐξ οἴκων” E.Supp.1000 (lyr.); ἄντυξ δ. the whirling wheel, S. Ph.678 (lyr.); “ὁλκάδες” Ar.Fr.420; “δ. κάμηλος” dromedary, D.S.19.37, Str.15.2.10, J.AJ6.14.6, Plu.Alex.31: also with a neut., “δρομάδι κώλῳ” E.Hel.1301 (lyr.); “δρομάσι βλεφάροις” Id.Or.837 (lyr.).
2. wildly roaming, frantic, Ναΐς, παρθένος, Id.Hipp.549 (lyr.), Tr.42; “Γαλλαὶ μητρὸς ὀρείης φιλόθυρσοι δρομάδες” Lyr.Adesp.121.
II. of certain fish, migratory, Arist.HA488a6.
III. street-walker, Phryn. Com.33.
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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