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μηρός , ὁ,
A.thigh, φάσγανον ὀξὺ ἐρυσσάμενος παρὰ μηροῦ drawing his sword from his thigh, where it hung, Il.1.190, cf. Od.11.231, al.; μηρὼ πληξάμενος, in sign of vehement agitation, Il.16.125; “ἐπαίσατο τὸν μηρόν” X.Cyr.7.3.6; “τύπτειν” Plb.15.27.11; “τὸν μ. ἀλοῆσαι” Plu.TG2; ἐπὶ μηρόν τινος beside it, LXX 4 Ki.16.14: in pl., Alc.Supp.11.6, A. Fr.135, 136.
2. thigh-bone, “κατ᾽ ἰσχίον, ἔνθα τε μηρὸς ἰσχίῳ ἐνστρέφεται” Il.5.305, cf. Hp.Art.57, Gal.18(2).472; esp. of thigh-bones with flesh offered in sacrifice, “μηροὺς ἐξέταμον” Il.1.460, al. (cf. μηρία）“; καταρρυεῖς μ. καλυπτῆς ἐξέκειντο πιμελῆς” S.Ant.1011; “θεοῖσι μηρὸν θύετε” Eub.130; “τίθεσο τὼ μηρὼ λαβών” Ar.Pax1039.
3. generally, leg-bones, “κάμηλος ἐν τοῖσι ὀπισθίοισι σκέλεσι ἔχει τέσσερας μηροὺς καὶ γούνατα τέσσερα” Hdt.3.103. (Cf. OIr. mīr 'piece', Lat. membrum, from mēmsro-, Skt. māmsám 'meat'.)
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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