φῦσα
ης, ἡ
A.
pair of bellows, mostly in pl., τὸν δ’ εὗρ’ . . ἑλισσόμενον περὶ φύσας, sc. Hephaestus, Il. 18.372, cf. 409; φύσας ἐσθέντες ἐφύσων Th. 4.100; αἱ φ. αἱ ἐν τοῖς χαλκείοις Arist. Resp. 474a12; τοῦ χαλκέος δύο φύσας Hdt. 1.68: hence ἐν τῇσι φύσῃς in the smithies Herod. 3.21.
2.
bladder, Dsc. 5.94, Hippiatr. 33, Gloss.; φῦσαν ὑπηνέμιον AP 9.486 (Pall.); φ. χηνεία PMag.Lond. 46.382; of the castoreum pouches of the beaver, Dsc. 2.24.
3.
= φαρέτρα, Hsch.
4.
= ἀσκός, Id.
II.
breath, wind, blast, ἀγρίαις φύσαισι φυσᾶν S. Fr. 768; ἐς τὸν ἀσκὸν φῦσαν ἐνιέναι . . to inflate, Hp. Art. 47, cf. 77.
2.
wind in the body, flatus, Id. VM 10,22, Aph. 4.73; breaking of wind, opp. ἐρυγμός, πταρμός, Arist. Pr. 962a35: pl., Pl. R. 405d, Arist. HA 604a12; περὶ φυσῶν, title of work by Hippocrates.
3.
of fire, stream, jet, φλὸξ φῦσαν ἱεῖσα πυρός h.Merc. 114.
4.
bubble, φ. ἐπίχρυσοι Luc. Merc.Cond. 22.
III.
crater of a volcano, Str. 13. 4.11, Oros.6.2.17.
IV.
calyx of φυσαλλίς 111, Dsc. Eup. 1.51.
V.
name of a fish found in the Nile, Str. 17.2.4, Ath. 7.312b. (Cf. Lith. pučiù 'I blow', Lat. pustula, etc.; onomatop.; v. may be Egyptian.)