- βρύκω
- βρύκω or [full] βρύχω [pron. full] [ῡ] (the former [dialect] Att. acc. to Moer. and Ammon.; the distn. βρύκωA bite, βρύχω gnash does not hold good), mostly [tense] pres.: [tense] fut.
βρύξω Hp.Mul.1.2
, Lyc.678: [tense] aor.ἔβρυξα Hp. Epid.5.86
, Nic.Th.207, al., AP7.624 (Diod.), ([etym.] ἐπ-) Archipp.35: [tense] aor. 2ἔβρῠχε AP9.252
(late, perh. [tense] impf.): for βέβρῡχα, v. βρυχάομαι: —[voice] Pass., v. infr.:—eat greedily, gobble, γνάθος ἱππείη βρύκει champs the bit, Hom.Epigr.14.13;ἑφθὰ καὶ ὀπτὰ [κρέα] . . βρύκειν E. Cyc.358
, cf. 372;πρὸς ταῦτα βρύκετ' Ar.Pax1315
; bite, βρύκουσ' ἀπέδεσθαι . . τοὺς δακτύλους biting, Id.Av.26; of smoke, ὀδὰξ ἔβρυκετὰς λήμας ἐμοῦ Id.Lys.301
; later, simply, devour, consume, Nic.Al. 489, al.; βρύξας, of the sea, is perh. f.l. for βρόξας in AP7.624 (Diod.): metaph., tear in pieces, devour, of a gnawing disease,βρύκει S.Tr.987
(lyr.);βρύκει γὰρ ἅπαν τὸ παρόν Cratin.58
;τὰ πατρῷα βρύκει Diph. 43.27
:—[voice] Pass.,ἀπόλωλα, τέκνον, βρύκομαι S.Ph.745
;βρυχθεὶς ἁλί AP9.267
(Phil.).II gnash or grind the teeth,τοὺς ὀδόντας βρύχει Hp.Mul.1.7
, etc., cf. AP15.51 (Arch.);τὸ στόμα β. Babr.95.45
;β. τοὺς ὀδόντας ἐπί τινα Act.Ap.7.54
; also βρύχει alone, Hp. Mul.2.120; also intr., οἱ ὀδόντες βρύχουσι ib.1.36;βρῦκον στόμα Nic. Al.226
, cf. Th.207, al.:—[voice] Med.,βρύχονται Hp.Morb.Sacr.1
(prob.).
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