A.barley-groats or coarsely-ground barley sprinkled over the victim and the altar before a sacrifice (“τὰς οὐλοχύτας φέρε δεῦρο.—τοῦτο δ᾽ ἐστὶ τί;—κριθαί” Strato Com.1.34), οὐλοχύτας ἀνελέσθαι, προβαλέσθαι, Il.1.449,458; “ἐν δ᾽ ἔθετ᾽ οὐλοχύτας κανέῳ” Od.4.761; χέρνιβά τ᾽ οὐλοχύτας τε κατάρχετο, of the ceremony of sprinkling the barley before sacrifice, 3.445:—also οὐλό-χυ^τα , τά, Hsch.
οὐλο-χύται [υ^], αἱ, （οὐλαί, χέω)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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