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μηρύομαι [υ_], Dor. μα_ρ- Theoc. (v. infr.): aor. ἐμηρυ_σάμην:—
A.draw up, furl, “ἱστία μηρύσαντο” Od.12.170, cf. A.R.4.889; ναῦται δ᾽ ἐμηρύσαντο νηὸς ἰσχάδα drew up the anchor, S.Fr.761; “μηρύεσθαι ἀπὸ βυθῶν” Opp.C.1.50; μ. πείσματα, σχοίνους, AP10.2 (Antip. Sid.); wind up the strands of a torsion-engine, HeroBel.98.10, AP10.5 (Thyill.); draw out phlegm, Aret.SA1.5.
2. in weaving, κρόκα ἐν στήμονι μηρύσασθαι weave the woof into the warp, Hes.Op.538.
b. wind off thread, LXX Pr.31.13, Luc.Herm.47.
3. in Med., μαρύεται περὶ χείλη κισσός ivy draws itself, winds round the edge, Theoc.1.29.
II. Act. is found in pf., περὶ τὸν τένοντα δυσκρίτους φλέβας μεμήρυκεν has twined, Hp.Oss.16.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 538
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.170
    • Old Testament, Proverbs, 31.13
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 761
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.889
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.5
    • Lucian, Hermotimus, 47
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