Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, χυ^τός

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2. of dry things, heaped up, Hom., only in phrase χυτὴ γαῖα a mound of earth, esp. a sepulchral mound, like χῶμα, Il.6.464, 14.114, Od.3.258; so “χυτῇ θινί” Opp.H.2.635; “χυτὰ κόνις” IG14.1721.5 (Rome), cf. 12(8).38.4 (Lemnos); also χυτή alone (sc. γαῖα) Epigr.Gr.1034.25 (Callipolis).

b. Subst., χυτός, ὁ, = χῶμα, mound, bank, dyke, Hdt.7.37.

3. χ. λιμήν protected by a mole or mound, A.R.1.987, ubi v. Sch.

II. cast, melted, “ἀρτήματα λίθινα χυτά” Hdt.2.69; “ἐν σκύφῳ χυτῆς λίθου” Epin.1.8; χ. ἄργυρος, πίσσα, Thphr.Lap.60, Nic.Al.116; “χαλκός” Orib.49.3.8; τὰ χυτά things fused or welded together, Iamb. in Nic.p.81P.

2. that can be liquefied, fusible, Pl.Ti.58d, 61c; opp. ἐλατός, Arist.Mete.378a27.

III. generally, liquid, fluid, flowing, “νέκταρ” Pi.O.7.7; “θάλασσα” AP6.66 (Paul.Sil.): poet. also of the hair, flowing, streaming, Nic.Th.503; χ. ἔρνος a luxuriant shoot or sprout, ib.391.

IV. in shoals, χυτοὶ ἰχθύες, of fish caught in nets, Arist.HA543a1.

V. χυτή, ἡ, case or jacket enclosing a wooden model of an engine, HeroBel.96.10.

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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