A.“ὑγρότερος” Pl.Tht.162b, etc.: Sup. “-ότατος” X.Eq.7.7, etc.:—wet, moist, fluid (opp. ξηρός), ὑγρὸν ἔλαιον, i. e. olive-oil, opp. fat or tallow, Il.23.281, Od.6.79; ὑ. πίσσα, νᾶπυ, raw pitch, liquid mustard, SIG1171.14 (Lebena, i B. C.), IG42(1).126.22 (Epid., ii A. D.); τὸ ὑ. ξύλον, opp. τὸ ξηρόν, Ev.Luc.23.31; “ὑγρὸν ὕδωρ” Od.4.458; ἄνεμοι ὑγρὸν ἀέντες winds blowing moist or rainy, 5.478, 19.440, Hes.Op.625, Th.869; ὑ. ἅλς, πέλαγος, θάλασσα, Pi.O. 7.69. P.4.40, A.Supp.259; ὑγρὰ νύξ a wet night, Pl.Criti.112a; ἐφ᾽ ὑγροῖς ζωγραφεῖν paint on a wet ground, Plu.2.759c.
2. ὑγρά, Ion. ὑγρή, ἡ, the moist, i.e. the sea, “ἐπὶ τραφερήν τε καὶ ὑγρήν” Il.14.308; “ἠμὲν ἐφ᾽ ὑγρὴν ἠδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀπείρονα γαῖαν” 24.341, Od.1.97; “ἐφ᾽ ὑγρᾷ” Ar.V.678; “πουλὺν ἐφ᾽ ὑγρήν” Il.10.27; so ὑγρὰ κέλευθα the watery ways, i. e. the sea, 1.312, Od.3.71.
3. τὸ ὑ. and “τὰ ὑ.” wet, moisture, Hdt. 1.142, Hp.Loc.Hom.9, Liqu. tit.; Liquid, Hdt.4.172; “γῆ ὑγρῷ φυραθεῖσα” Pl.Tht.147c; ἐξερρύα συχνὸν ὑγρόν a quantity of fluid, IG42(1).122.4 (Epid., iv B. C.); μετρεῖν τὰ ὑγρά liquids, ib.22.1013.10; “ἐπὶ ὑγροῖς οὐκ ἐξὸν δανείζειν” PGnom.232 (ii A. D.).
4. μέτρα ὑγρὰ καὶ ξηρά liquid and dry measure, Pl.Lg.746e.
5. θῆρες ὑ. water-animals, opp. πεζοί, AP9.18 (Germ.); “οἱ ὄρνιθες οἱ ὑ.” Philostr. Im.1.9; ὑ. ἀοιδός, of a frog, AP6.43 (Plato).
6. of the bowels or faeces, loose, Hp.Aph.2.20, Arist.HA617a1.
II. soft, pliant, supple, of the eagle's back, Pi.P.1.9; of the limbs and body, “ὑγραῖς ἐν ἀγκάλαις” E. Fr.941, cf. Babr.34.7; ὑγρὸς τὸ εἶδος, of Ἔρως, Pl.Smp.196a; νεώτερος καὶ ὑγρότερος, opp. σκληρός, Id.Tht.162b; “χορῷ . . ἔτερπον κέαρ ὑγροῖσι ποσσί” B.16.108; “ὑ. ὀρχηστής” Poll.4.96, cf. Arist.PA655a24 (Comp.); ὑγρὰ ἔχειν τὰ σκέλη, of a horse, X.Eq.1.6; of a horse's neck, Id.Cyn.4.1 (so in Adv. of colts, γόνατα ὑγρῶς κάμπτειν, ὑγρῶς τοῖς σκέλεσι χρῆσθαι, Id.Eq.1.6, 10.15); of the hare, Id.Cyn.5.31; of the jackal, “ταχυτῆτι διαφέρει διὰ τὸ ὑγρὸς εἶναι καὶ πηδᾷ πόρρω” Arist. HA580a30; also of plants, “ὑ. ἄκανθος” Theoc.1.55; “ὑ. χολάδες” Babr. 1.10; σῶμα ὑγρὸν κείμενον lying in an easy position, Hp.Prog.3; “ὑγρὸν χύτλασον σεαυτόν” Ar.V.1213; κέρας ὑ., of a bow, Theoc.25.206.
2. languid, feeble, of one dying, “ἐς ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶνα . . παρθένῳ προσπτύσσεται” S.Ant.1236; “κἀπιθεὶς ὑγρὰν χέρα” E.Ph.1439.
4. moist with wine, tipsy, “ὑγρὴν τὴν ψυχὴν ἔχειν” Heraclit.117; “ἡ διάνοια ὑ. γεγενημένη” Plu. 2.713a; “οἰνοβαρὴς . . ὑγρὸν ἀείδων, οὐ μάλα νγφάλιον κλάζων μέλος” Opp. H.2.412.
5. of the eyes, melting, languishing, “ὑ. βλέμμα” Anacreont. 15.21; “ὑγρὰ δερκομένοισιν ἐν ὄμμασιν” AP7.27 (Antip. Sid.); “ἐπ᾽ ὄμμασιν ὑγρὰ δεδορκώς” APl.4.306 (Leon.); “τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὸ ὑ. ἅμα τῷ φαιδρῷ” Luc.Im.6; also πόθος ὑ. a languishing, longing desire, h.Pan.33. Adv., “ὑγρῶς βλέπειν” Philostr.Ep.33: Sup., “ὑγρότατα καὶ πένθιμα μελῳδεῖν” App.BC1.106.
6. of language, smoothly flowing, D.H.Dem. 20.
7. metaph. of persons or their tempers, facile, pliant, easy, “ὑγρός τις καὶ δημοτικός” Plu.Mar.28; “κόλαξ ὑγρὸς ὢν μεταβάλλεσθαι” Id.2.51c; τὸ Κίμωνος ὑ. his easy temper, Id.Per.5; pleasure-loving, Hsch.; ὑγρότατος ἐς ταῦτα prone to . . , App.BC5.8; “ὑ. τῷ γελοίῳ” Plu. Brut.29 (Comp.).