Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“-νεύσομαι” Il.1.524, Pl.R.350e: aor. “κατένευσα” Il.1.558, etc.; Ep. part. “καννεύσας” Od.15.464:—nod assent, “κεφαλῇ κατανεύσομαι” Il.1.524; “Χαίταις” Pi.N.1.14; “κατανεύσομαι καὶ ἀνανεύσομαι” Pl.R.l.c., cf. Euthd.277c, Ar.Ec.72: abs., of granting a request, “ὑπέστην καὶ κατένευσα” Il.4.267, cf. Hdt.9.111, Ar.Th.1020: c. acc. rei, grant, promise, “ὅτι μοι κατένευσε Κρονίων νίκην καὶ μέγα κῦδος” Il.8.175: later c. dat., consent to, BGU1119.24 (i B.C.): c. fut. inf., “δωσέμεναι κατένευσε” Il.10.393; “ὑπέσχετο καὶ κατένευσεν Ἴλτον ἐκπέρσαντ᾽ εὐτείχεον ἀπονέεσθαι” 2.112: later c. aor. inf., BionFr.5.8: generally, make a signbynoddingthehead, “ὁ δὲ τῇ -ένευσε σιωπῇ” Od.15.463.

II. bow down, εἰς γῆν v.l. in Ach.Tat.7.14; “ἐπειδὰν -νεύσῃ τὸ ἀγγεῖον” Gp. 2.4.2; “κ. τὴν κεφαλήν” Poll.1.205: pf. part. -νενευκώς downcast, Vett. Val.2.4.

III. Astron., tilt downward, of the pole, Eudox.Ars 6.31. [“κατα_νεύων” Od.9.490.]