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οὔριος , α, ον, also ος, ον S.Ph.355: (οὖρος A):—
A.with a fair wind, οὔ. πλοῦς a prosperous voyage, ib.780, E.IA1596; “οὔ. δρόμος” S.Aj.889 (lyr.); “πομπή” E.IA352; of a ship, “οὔ. πλάτη” S.Ph.355; “λαῖφος” E.Hel. 406; νεὼς πτερόν ib.147; “ἀφήσω κατὰ κῦμ᾽ ἐμαυτὸν οὔριον” Ar.Eq.433: neut. pl. as Adv., οὔρια θεῖν to run before the wind, Id.Lys.550; cf. infr. 11.2.
2. metaph., prosperous, successful, “πρᾶξις” A.Ch.814 (lyr.), cf. E.HF95; “φόνος” Id.Heracl.822; “βίοτος” AP7.164.10 (Antip. Sid.): neut. pl. οὔρια as Adv., E.Hel.1588 (codd., but prob. οὔριοι).
II. prospering, favouring, πνεῦμα, πνοαί, ib.1663, Hec.900, X.HG1.6.37; “ἐπὶ τοὺς Αθηναίους οὔριος ἄνεμος” Th.7.53: Com. of bellows, “οὐρίᾳ ῥιπίδι” Ar.Ach.669. Adv. Sup. “-ώτατα” Stad.150, 178.
2. οὐρία (sc. πνοή), ἡ, = οὖρος, a fair wind, Archil.(?) in PLit.Lond.54, etc.; οὐρίᾳ ἐφέντα (sc. ἑαυτόν or τὸ πλοῖον) running before the wind, Pl.Prt.338a; ἐξ οὐρίας διαδραμεῖν, πλεῖν, Arist.Mech.851b6, Plb.1.47.2; also, “ἐξ οὐρίων δραμοῦσαν” S.Aj.1083; “πάντα ἐξ οὐρίων θεῖ” Lib.Ep.178; “ἐν οὐρίῳ πλεῖν” Luc. Lex.15.
III. Ζεὺς οὔριος as sending fair winds, i. e. conducting things to a happy issue, A.Supp.594 (lyr.), AP12.53.8 (Mel.), BMus.Inscr.1012 (Chalcedon), OGI368 (Delos, ii B. C.), etc.; “οὔριος . . ἐπίλαμψον ἐμῷ καὶ ἔρωτι καὶ ἱστῷ Κύπρι” AP5.16 (Gaet.).
IV. οὔ. ᾠόν a wind-egg, = ὑπηνέμιον, Arist. GA753a22, etc.; those laid in spring were called ζεφύρια, those in autumn κυνόσουρα, Id.HA560a5 (v.l. οὔρινα).
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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