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προκύπτω ,
A.point forwards and downwards, ἄκρος ὁ ποὺς ἧσσόν τι -κύπτειν ἐθέλει ἐς τοὔμπροσθεν (in dislocations) Hp.Art.59.
2. stick one's head out, peep out, “ἐκ τοῦ δίφρου” D.C.64.6; “διά τινων ὀπῶν” S.E.M. 7.350, cf. 364: c. gen., “τῆς καλύβης” Alciphr.3.30; “θυρίδων” Babr.116.3.
3. peep out, emerge, “ἔξω τείχους” Ar.Av.496; of things, “τιτθίον” Id.Ra.415; “γλῶττα” Luc.Alex.12; “κυνίδιον ἐκ τοῦ ἱματίου π.” Id.Merc. Cond.34; “ἐξ ὠδίνων προὔκυψε τὸ βρέφος” Porph.Gaur.16.5, cf. S.E.M. 5.65: metaph., “τὸ νοητικὸν π.” Lysis ap. Iamb.VP17.77; “ὅσα π. ἀπὸ τῆς συνῃρημένης φύσεως” Dam.Pr.85; ἐπ᾽ ἄκρων τῶν χειλῶν π. τις λόγος (prob. for ὑπερ-) Aristaenet.2.10.
4. Medic., suffer from prolapsus, of the iris, Gal.12.716; of the omentum, Id.18(1).97.
5. flow out, of water, Porph. in Cat.104.21.
II. stoop before, of a hunchback, “οὐ προεστάναι τῆς πόλεως, ἀλλὰ προκεκυφέναι” Plu.2.633d.
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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