χνόος, ὁ
(ἡ [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1106)] Refs 5th c.BC+], Attic dialect contraction χνοῦς, genitive χνοῦ: irregular genitive χνοός [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.234H.; _dative_ χνοΐ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.10.7, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.850:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —ἁλὸς χ. incrustation from salt water, ἔκ κεφαλῆς ἔσμηχεν ἁλὸς χνόον, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.226 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; wool pulled for stuffing cushions, flock, falsa lectio for{μνοῦς} in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.61 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; used in applying a powder, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus [same place] ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; chaff, [[ LXX.Psa.1.4 ] LXX]: powder, proverbial, [ὄνος] εἰς ἄχυρα καὶ χνοῦν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 76 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; dust of the earth, [[ LXX.2Ki.22.43, LXX.2Ch.1.9 ] LXX]; ὡς δοκεῖν τοῦ καλουμένου χνοῦ μεστοὺς εἶναι (i.e. τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς) [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.552. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II fine down on a flower or in the seed-vessel, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.8.4, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.59 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:bloom on fruit, ἐν Καρίᾳ φασὶν ἄπιόν τιν᾽ ἔχειν χνοῦν ἁλμώδη [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.10.7; μάλων χνοῦς ἐπικαρπίδιος “Anthologia Graeca” 9.226 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Zonas Epigrammaticus)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; the first down on the chin or cheeks, χνοῦς ὥσπερ μήλοισιν ἐπήνθει [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 978 (_anapaest meter_); κοῦρος ἔτ᾽ ἀρτιγένειον ἔχων χνόον “Anthologia Graeca” 9.219 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Diodorus Epigrammaticus); θηλείαις οὐδ᾽ ὅσσον ἐπὶ χνόος ἦλθε παρειαῖς 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 37; ἐντίκτει τι χνοῦ ἀνάπλεων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 605b15: _plural_, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 51. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]