χερείων 1 epic and dialect for χείρων
I.meaner, inferior, in rank, worth or wealth, Hom.
II.besides this, we have several irreg. forms (as if from a nom. xe/rhs), dat. χέρηι, acc. χέρηα, nom. pl. χέρηες, acc. neut. χέρηα, all used in compar. sense, χώσεται ἀνδρὶ χέρηι shall be wroth with a man of meaner rank, Il.; ἐσθλὰ μὲν ἐσθλὸς ἔδυνε, χέρηα δὲ χείρονι δόσκεν, where ἐσθλά ἐσθλός and χέρηα χείρονι are evidently correlative, id=Il.; with a gen., εἷο χέρηα inferior to himself, id=Il.; χέρηα πατρός Od.