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δρι_μύτης , ητος, ἡ,
A.acridness of humours, Hp.VM18 (pl.); pungency of taste, etc., Anaxipp.1.46, Alex.Aphr.Pr.2.70: pl., Arched. 2.7, Thphr.CP1.16.9; itches, Agatharch.58; of smoke, Plb.21.28.16.
II. metaph., keenness, eagerness, Pl.Plt.311a; “δ. πρὸς τὰ μαθήματα” Id.R.535b; keenness of wit or satire, Plu.2.48a, Luc.Alex. 4; πανουργία καὶ δ. ib.483f; “ποικιλία καὶ δ.” Arr.Epict.2.23.40; bitterness in controversy, Phld.Ir.p.22 W.
2. esp. in Lit. Crit., use of striking words and turns of phrase, Id.Piet.15, Hermog.Id.2.5, Inv.3.13, Aristid.Rh.2pp.513,524S.
3. fierceness, grimness, “τοῦ προσώπου” App.BC1.70.
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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