φῠή,
Doric dialect φῠά, ἡ, (φύω) growth, stature, especially fine growth, noble stature, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, always (as in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)] Refs 8th c.BC+] of the human form, and only in accusative, θηήσαντο φυὴν καὶ εἶδος ἀγητόν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.370; φυὴν ἐδάην καὶ μήδεα 3.208 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; most frequently in adverb sense, Νέστορι δίῳ εἶδός τε μέγεθός τε φυήν τ᾽ ἄγχιστα ἐῴκει in shape and in stature and in size (or growth),[[ 2.58, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.152; οὔ ἑθέν ἐστι χερείων, οὐ δέμας οὐδὲ φυήν, οὔτ᾽ ἂρ φρένας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.115, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.212, 7.210; φυήν γε μὲν οὐ κακός ἐστι 8.134; χρυσέῳ [γένει] οὔτε φυὴν ἐναλίγκιον οὔτε νόημα 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 129, compare “Sc.” 88, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.168; later, in _genitive_, οὔτε φυῆς ἐπιδευέες οὔτε νόοιο 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.160 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; rare in Trag., τὴν τάλαιναν εὔμορφον φ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Niob.” in “PSI” 11.1208.8; φυὰν Γοργόνος ἴσχειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 461 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 after [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, of animals, plants, or objects, ἐμβάλλων ἐριπλεύρῳ φυᾷ κέντρον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.235; κάνθαρος.. Αἰτναῖος φυήν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 300 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also τερπόμεναι ῥοδέῃ φ. of roses, [[ 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.36 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; of beans, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Vit.Auct.” 6 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of things, ἀνέβη ἡ φ. τοῖς τείχεσιν their original form was restored, [[ LXX.Neh.4.7(1); ἐὰν κατὰ φυὰν διαφθαρῇ τις τῶν λίθων “IG” 7.3073.40 (Lebad., 2nd c.BC). ] LXX+2nd c.BC+]