A.sooty, smoky, mostly as epith. of κεραυνός, lurid, Od.23.330, 24.539, Hes. Th.515; opp. ἀργής (vivid), Arist.Mete.371a21, Mu.395a26; also of a serpent, opp. “αἰθός, χροιῇ ψολόεις” Nic.Th.288, cf. 129 (where ψολόεις is fem.), Opp.C.3.439; “Αἴτνη ψολόεσσα” Euph.51.11.
II. ψολόεις , οἱ, the male mourners in a ritual at the Boeotian Orchomenos, Plu. 2.299e: prob. so called because δυσειματοῦντες, cf. Plu. l. c.