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βύω Arist.HA632a18: fut. βύσω [υ_] Thalesap.D.L.1.35, (ἐπι-) Cratin.186.4, (προ-) Ar.V.250: aor.
A.“ἔβυ_σα” Hp.Morb.3.14, (ἐπι-) Ar. Pl.379:—Med., only in compds.:—Pass., aor. ἐβύσθην （παρ-) Luc. Deor.Conc.10: pf. βέβυσμαι, the tense chiefly in use (v. infr.):— stuff,
1. c. gen. rei, stuff full of, only in Pass., νήματος βεβυσμένος stuffed full of spun-work or spinning, Od.4.134; τὸ στόμα ἐβέβυστο (sc. χρυσοῦ) Hdt.6.125; “ἀνάγκης βεβυσμένος οἶκος” Nonn.D.9.298.
2. c. dat. rei, stop or plug with, “βύσας τὴν ἕδρην σπόγγῳ” Hp. l. c., cf. Arist. l.c.:—Pass., “σπογγίῳ βεβυσμένος” Ar.Ach.463; “κηρίῳ” Id.Th. 506; ῥαφάνοις τὴν ἕδραν βεβ. Alciphr.3.62; ἵππος ἀριστήεσσι βεβ. Tryph.308; ἀφραδίῃ τε βέβυστο [πόλις] Id.450.
3. abs., βεβυσμένος τὴν ῥῖνα having one's nose stopped, Hegesipp.1.26; βεβ. τὰ ὦτα deaf, Luc.Cat.5; εἷμα βεβ. a close, thick-woven robe, Hp.Mul.1.1.
4. stow or tuck away, “τι ὑπὸ τῇ πτέρυγι” Ael.NA11.18. (Root βυτ-, cf. βύζην （<Βυσ-δην）, βύσ-τρα; cf. ζέβυται: σέσακται, Hsch.）
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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