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κόμπος (A), ὁ,
A.din, clash, esp. such as is caused by the collision of two hard bodies, as when a boar whets his tusks, “ὑπαὶ δέ τε κ. ὀδόντων γίγνεται” Il.11.417, 12.149; stamping of dancers' feet, “πολὺς δ᾽ ὑπὸ κ. ὀρώρει” Od.8.380; ringing of metal, E.Rh.383 (anap., pl.).
II. metaph., boast, vaunt, “ὁ κ. οὐ κατ᾽ ἄνθρωπον φρονεῖ” A.Th.425, cf. 473, Ag.613; “οὐ πεπλασμένος ὁ κ., ἀλλὰ καὶ λίαν εἰρημένος” Id.Pr.1031; “Ζεὺς γὰρ μεγάλης γλώσσης κόμπους ὑπερεχθαίρει” S.Ant.127 (anap.); κ. πάρεστι, i.e. I am proud of the deed, Id.Aj.96: rare in Prose and Com., “ὅρα μὴ μάτην κ. ὁ λόγος εἰρημένος ᾖ” Hdt.7.103; “οὐ λόγων . . κ. τάδε, μᾶλλον ἤ ἔργων . . ἀλήθεια” Th.2.41; “ἀλαζονεία καὶ κ. τοῦ ψηφίσματος” Aeschin.3.237; “κ. κενοὶ ψοφοῦσιν” Alex.25.9; of rhetorical bombast, Epicur.Sent.Vat.45.
2. rarely in good sense, praise, Pi.I.1.43, 5(4).24.
III. in pl., molar teeth, 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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