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βράσσω , Att. βρα^δύ-ττω , aor.
A.“ἔβρα^σα” Hp.Ep.23, etc.:—Pass., aor. “ἐβράσθην” Aret.SA1.5: pf. βέβρασμαι (v. infr.):—shake violently, throw up, of the sea, “σκολόπενδραν . . ἔβρασ᾽ ἐπὶ σκοπέλους” AP6.222 (Theodorid.); τὸν πρέσβυν . . ἔβρασε . . εἰς ἠϊόνα ib.7.294 (Tull.Laur.): —Pass., ὀστέα . . βέβρασται . . τῇδε παρ᾽ ἠϊόνι ib.288 (Antip.), cf. Opp. H.1.779; boil, of surf, A.R.2.323, Opp.H.3.476; β. ὑπὸ γέλωτος shake with laughter, Luc.Eun.12.
2. winnow grain, Ar.Fr.271, Pl.Sph.226b.
3. abs., = βράζω, boil, interpol. in Gp.7.15.20; dub. sens. in Hp. l.c.
4. βράττειν: πληθύνειν, βαρύνειν, 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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Plato, Sophist, 226b
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.323
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.5
    • Lucian, Eunuchus, 12
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