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τυ^λ-όω ,
A.make knobby:—Pass., ῥόπαλα τετυλωμένα σιδήρῳ clubs knobbed with iron, Hdt.7.63; of the outside of the “κίτριον, σκληρὸν καὶ τετ.” Gal.6.618.
II. make callous, “τυλοῖ τὸ στόμα [ὁ χαλινός]” X.Eq.6.9:—Pass., to be made hard or callous, “τετυλωμένης τῆς μήτρας” Orib.22.7.1, cf. Sor.1.10, al.; “μακέλᾳ τετυλωμένος ἔνδοθι χεῖρας” Theoc.16.32; “τετυλωμένα βλέφαρα” Dsc.5.99.
2. metaph., “τὴν χεῖρα καὶ τὴν ἀκοὴν πρὸς τὰ ἐξαρτήματα” Iamb.VP26.118, cf. Arr. Epict.2.18.9.—Cf. τυλωτός, and v. μυλόομαι.
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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