A.to be or become dry, dry up, ἕλκος ἐτέρσετο παύσατο δ᾽ αἷμα the wound dried up and the blood was staunched, Il.11.267,848; “οὐδέ μοι αἷμα τερσῆναι δύναται” 16.519; θειλόπεδον τέρσεται ἠελίῳ is baked by the sun, Od.7.124; “εἵματα δ᾽ ἠελίοιο μένον τερσήμεναι αὐγῇ” 6.98; “ὅταν [τὰ ῥάκεα] ἐν ἡλίῳ τέρσηται” Hp.Mul.1.11; ὄσσε δακρυόφιν τέρσοντο his eyes became dry from tears, Od.5.152.
τέρσομαι , Pass., with aor. inf. τερσῆναι, τερσήμεναι (v. infr.), as if from ἐτέρσην:—
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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