A.singe, esp. of singeing off the bristles of swine before they are cooked, “εὗσέ τε μίστυλλέν τε καὶ ἀμφ᾽ ὀβελοῖσιν ἔπειρεν” Od.14.75, cf. 426, 2.300; “σύες εὑόμενοι τανύοντο διὰ φλογός” Il.9.468; so of the Cyclops, “πάντα δέ οἱ βλέφαρ᾽ ἀμφὶ καὶ ὀφρύας εὗσεν ἀϋτμή” Od.9.389: metaph., of a shrewish wife, “ἄνδρα . . εὕει ἄτερ δαλοῦ” Hes.Op.705 (αὔει codd. Stob.). (Sts. εὔω in codd., v.l. Il.9.468 (cf. EM401.24), Od.2.300 (cf. EM398.34), Hes.l.c.: but v. ἀφ-εύω, ἐφεύω; cf. Lat. uro fr. *eus-ō.）
εὕω , aor. 1 εὗσα (v. infr.),
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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