καπυρός

A. dried by the air, κάρυα Epich. 150; Χοιρίων σκέλη Antiph. 185; ἄλφιτον κ. Arist. Pr. 927a24, cf. Dieuch. ap. Orib. 4.7.3; τυρός Test.Epict. 5.36; Χαῖται (of thistle-down) Theoc. 6.16.

b. brittle, ὀστέον Hp. VC 19 (v.l. εὔπριστον); cj. in Thphr. HP 3.13.4 and 7 (Comp.); crisp, crackly, Diocl.Fr. 147.

2. Act., drying, parching, κ. νόσος, of love, Theoc. 2.85.

II. of sound, crackly, καπυρὸν ψοφεῖν Gal. 6.434: metaph., κ. γελάσας laughing loud, AP 7.414 (Nossis), cf. Longus 2.5; κ. γέλως Alciphr. 3.48; κ. στόμα clear-sounding, of Poets, Theoc. 7.37; κ. συρίζειν to play clearly on the syrinx, Luc. DDeor. 22.3; καπυρώτεραι ᾠδαί rude songs, opp. ἐσπουδασμέναι, Ath. 15.697b.