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πυγμ-ή , ἡ, (πύξ)
A.fist, Hp.Art.71, E.IT1368; “τῇ π. θενών” Ar.V. 1384; “πυγμῇ πατάξαι” LXX Ex.21.18, cf. Is.58.4.
2. boxing, as an athletic contest, “πυγμῇ νικήσαντα” Il.23.669; “πυγμὴν νικᾶν” E.Alc.1031; “ἄνδρας πυγμὰν ἐνίκα Ὀλύμπια” AP6.256 (Antip.); “πυγμᾶς ἄποινα” Pi. O.7.16, cf. 10(11).67; πυγμὴν or τὴν π. ἀσκεῖν, Pl.Lg.795b, D.61.24; freq. in Inscrr., e.g. πυγμὴν Ζωΐλος (sc. ἐνίκησε) IG7.1765 (Thespiae), etc.
b. generally, fight, π. μονομάχων καὶ θηρίων Edict.Caes. ap. J.AJ14.10.6, cf. Artem.5.58; εἰς π. καθίστασθαι, τρέπεσθαι, of partridges, Gp.14.20.1,2.
3. in Ev.Marc.7.3, πυγμῇ νίψασθαι is interpr. diligently (v.l. πυκνά, often).
II. a measure of length, the distance from the elbow to the knuckles,= 18 δάκτυλοι, Thphr.HP9.11.5, Poll.2.147,158.
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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