A.form into a swelling fold; esp. make a sail belly, “πνοιῇ . . λίνα κολπώσαντες” AP9.363.10 (Mel.); “ἄνεμος κ. τὴν ὀθόνην” Luc.VH 1.9; χιτῶνας κολπώσαντες τῷ ἀνέμῳ, καθάπερ ἱστία ib.13:—Pass., swell out, of membranes, Hp.Nat.Puer.16; “κολποῦται ὑμὴν φυσώμενος” Arist.HA510b32; of Europa's garment, Mosch.2.129; “κολποῦται Ζέφυρος εἰς ὀθόνας” AP10.5 (Thyill.); of a bay, curve, Plb.34.11.5: Medic., contain a sinus, Heliod. ap. Orib.44.8.22: metaph.in pf. part. Pass., κεκολπωμένος turgid, of style, D.H.Dem.19.
κολπ-όω ,
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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