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ἄμπωτις , ἡ, gen. εως, Ion. ιος, for ἀνάπωτις （ἀναπίνομαι), v. infr.:—
A.being sucked back, i.e. of sea, ebb, opp., πλημμυρίς or ῥαχία (Ion. ῥηχίη), Hdt.2.11, 7.198, 8.129, Arist.Mete.366a19, Placit.3.17, Agatharch. 32, etc.: in pl., ebb and flow, tides, Arist.Mu.396a26, Peripl.M.Rubr. 45, App.Hisp.1, Hdn.3.14.6.—The full form ἀνάπωτις only Pi.O. 9.52, Scymn.110, and later Prose, Plb.10.14.2 (s. v.l.), Arr.Ind.22.8: gen. -πώτιδος, Agatharch.101.
2. retiring of a stream, Call.Del. 130.
3. metaph., “τῆς ἀδολεσχίας ὥσπερ ἄμπωτιν λαβούσης” Plu. 2.502d.
II. return of humours inward from surface of body, “ἄ. τῶν χυμῶν” Hp.Hum.1, cf. Erot.Fr.8; of blood in the lungs, Gal. UP6.10.
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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