A.hole, cleft, hollow, κοίλην εἰσέπτατο πέτρην, χηραμόν, of a rock pigeon, Il.21.495, cf. Arist.HA614b35, Hld.8.16; χ. [σφηκῶν] Lyc.181; of a mouse's hole, Babr.107.13; of a hollow in the hilt of a sword, Ach.Tat.3.20, 21; of a shell, Id.2.11; of the hollows on the sides of the tongue, Poll.2.107.—The gend. is undetermined in Hom.; fem., A.R.4.1452, prob. in Arist.l.c.; masc., Ael.NA3.26, Philostr.VA2.14: heterocl. pl. χηραμά, τά, Nic.Th.55, 149, Q.S.9.382; cf. χηλαμός, χαραμός, χειραμός.
χηρα^μός ,
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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