A.that which is rubbed or scraped off, shavings, scrapings, chips, ψ. χρυσοῦ gold-dust, Hdt.4.195; so without χρυσοῦ, Id.1.93, 3.94 sq.; “ψ. χρυσότευκτον” Eub.20; “ψ. ἀργυρᾶ” Inscr.Délos 442B89 (ii B.C.); πυρωθὲν ψ., of dust and ashes, A.Ag.442 (lyr.); of wood, “τὰ τῶν αἰγείρων ψ.” Philostr.Im.1.11; ἥλων ψ., = χαλκοῦ ἄνθος, Dsc.5.77; μὴ διαλύεσθαι μέχρι ἐλαχίστου ψήγματος (of gum) Id.3.22; of motes in a sunbeam, Arist.Cael.313a20, cf. 304a21, Plu.2.722a, and v. τίλα 11.
ψῆγ-μα , ατος, τό, (ψήχω)
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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