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γένει-ον , τό, (γένυς)
A.part covered by the beard, chin, Od.16.176; “πολιὸν γ.” Il.22.74; esp. in supplication, “ἔλλαβε χειρὶ γενείου” 8.371; “γ. χειρὶ παχείῃ ἁψάμενος” 10.454; “γενείου λευκήρη τρίχα” A.Pers.1056 (lyr.), cf. Th.666, Hdt.2.36: in pl., S.OT1277, Plu.Ant.1; “κείρασθαι τὰ γ.” Id.Cat.Mi.53: prov. of a lean animal, οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν γ. τε καὶ κέρατα nothing but chin and horns, Ar.Av.902.
2. beard, Hdt.6.117: pl., Theoc.6.36, J.AJ11.5.3, Paus.2.10.3, Theo Sm.p.104H.
b. a lion's mane, Luc.Cyn.14.
3. chaps, Arist.HA518b17; jaws, AP7.531 (Antip. Thess.).
4. pl., teeth of a saw, Nic.Th.53.
5. dub. sens. in IG11(2).165.11, 28 (Dclos, iii B. C.).
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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