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χαλαζ-ήεις

chalazeeis

like hail, thick as hail, whose sting causes an icy chill

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What it meant — LSJ

like hail, thick as hail

like hail, φόνος χ. blood thick as hail (cf. χάλαζα I fin.), Pi. I. 5(4).50; συρμός AP 6.221 (Leon.); ὀϊστοί Nonn. D. 18.232.

II whose sting causes an icy chill

σκορπίος χ. a scorpion whose sting causes an icy chill, Nic. Th. 13.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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