1. Radic. sense, to pour : 2. properly of liquids, to pour out, pour , (Homer), etc.; Zeus χέει ὕδωρ, i. e. he makes it rain, (Iliad by Homer); χέει χιόνα βορέας (Euripides); absolute, χέει it snows , (Iliad by Homer):—;Mid. to pour for oneself , especially of drink-offerings, χοὰς χεόμην νεκύεσσι (Odyssey by Homer), etc.:—;Pass., χέονται κρῆναι they gush forth , (Euripides); χυθέντος ποτοῦ ἐς γῆν (Sophocles Tragicus) 3. χ. δάκρυα to shed tears, (Iliad by Homer):—;Pass., of tears, to pour or gush forth , (Homer); so of blood, to be shed , (Aeschulus Tragicus) 4. in Pass. to become liquid, melt, thaw , (Xenophon Historicus) 5. of solids, to shed, scatter , φύλλα (Iliad by Homer); πτερά (Odyssey by Homer); χ. κόνιν κὰκ κεφαλῆς (Homer); χ. καλάμην χθονί, of a mower or reaper (see. καλάμη), (Iliad by Homer) 6. like χώννυμι, to throw out earth, so as to form a mound, σῆμα, τύμβον χ. (Homer) 7. χ. δοῦρα to pour or shower spears, (Iliad by Homer); Mid., βέλεα χέοντο they showered their arrows, (Iliad by Homer) 8. to let fall or drop , ἡνία (Iliad by Homer); so, χέειν κρόκου βαφὰς (see. βαφή II) (Aeschulus Tragicus); but, καρπὸν χ., of trees, to produce fruit abundantly , (Odyssey by Homer) 9. in Pass. to be thrown or heaped up together , (Homer) 10. in Pass. also of living beings, to pour or stream in a dense mass or throng , (Homer) 11. metaphorically of sounds, to pour forth , φωνήν, αὐδήν (Odyssey by Homer); φθόγγον (Aeschulus Tragicus) 12. of things that obscure the sight, κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν χέεν ἀχλύν shed a dark cloud over the eyes, (Iliad by Homer); πολλὴν ἠέρα χεῦε shed a mist abroad, (Odyssey by Homer):—;Pass., ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ θάνατος χύτο was shed around him, (Iliad by Homer); νόσος κέχυται (Sophocles Tragicus); φρὶξ ἐπὶ πόντον ἐχεύατο (Mid. in passive sense), (Iliad by Homer) 13. of persons, ἀμφ᾽ αὐτῶι χυμένη throwing herself around him, (Homer): so in Mid., ἀμφὶ υἱὸν ἐχεύατο πήχεε (Iliad by Homer) 14. perfect passive κέχυμαι, to be wholly engaged in , Δᾶλος, ἐν ἇι κέχυμαι (Pindar) (ML)