The corpus record

βύω

buo

stuff, stuff full of, stuffed full of

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Where it lives

Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

βύω · byō — LSJ

stuff

stuff,

1 stuff full of, stuffed full of

c. gen. rei, stuff full of, only in Pass., νήματος βεβυσμένος stuffed full of spun-work or spinning, Od. 4.134; τὸ στόμα ἐβέβυστο (sc. χρυσοῦ) Hdt. 6.125; ἀνάγκης βεβυσμένος οἶκος Nonn. D. 9.298.

2 stop, plug with

c. dat. rei, stop or plug with, βύσας τὴν ἕδρην σπόγγῳ Hp. l.c., cf. Arist. l.c.:—Pass., σπογγίῳ βεβυσμένος Ar. Ach. 463; κηρίῳ Id. Th. 506; ῥαφάνοις τὴν ἕδραν βεβ. Alciphr. 3.62; ἵππος ἀριστήεσσι βεβ. Tryph. 308; ἀφραδίῃ τε βέβυστο [πόλις] Id. 450.

3 having, stopped, deaf, close, thick-woven

abs., βεβυσμένος τὴν ῥῖνα having oneʼs nose stopped, Hegesipp. 1.26; βεβ. τὰ ὦτα deaf, Luc. Cat. 5; εἷμα βεβ. a close, thick-woven robe, Hp. Mul. 1.1.

4 stow, tuck away

stow or tuck away, τι ὑπὸ τῇ πτέρυγι Ael. NA 11.18. (Root βυτ-, cf. βύζην (< *βυσ-δην) , βύσ-τρα; cf. ζέβυται· σέσακται, Hsch.)

In the wild

βεβυσμένον · bebysmenon Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 360)
βεβυσμένον · bebysmenon Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 2.505 (DIORISIS sentence 381)
ἐβέβυστο · ebebysto Herodotus, Histories 6.125.4 (DIORISIS sentence 6922)
βεβυσμένον · bebysmenon Odyssey 4.134
βυούσης · byousēs Septuaginta, Psalmi 57

Where it came from

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