Sense

1. to grate, creak, to ring, to hiss

Examples

• "τῆσ γὰρ ἄλλησ νυκτὸσ ᾤμην αὐτοῦ τὴν οἰκίαν ὠδίνειν ὥσπερ κύουσαν αὐτὸν δὲ καὶ τοὺσ φίλουσ συναγωνιῶντασ εὔχεσθαι καὶ κύκλῳ παρεῖναι τὴν δὲ μυκᾶσθαι καὶ ἀφιέναι φωνάσ τινασ ἀνάρθρουσ, τέλοσ δὲ πῦρ λάμψαι πολὺ καὶ δεινὸν ἐξ αὐτῆσ ἔνδοθεν, ὡσ τὰ πλεῖστα τῆσ πόλεωσ φλέγεσθαι τὴν δὲ Καδμείαν καπνῷ μόνῳ περιέχεσθαι τὸ δὲ πῦρ ἄνω μὴ ἐπιπολάζειν. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 17 7:13)
• οὐχ οὕτω δεινὸν ἦν τὸ τὰσ βύρσασ τῶν βοῶν ἑρ́πειν οὐδὲ τὸ μυκᾶσθαι τὰ κρέα. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 78:2)
• δόξει δ’ ὁ ταῦροσ στεναγμοῖσ μυκᾶσθαι τοῖσ ἐκείνου, σὺ δ’ ἡδονὴν τοῖσ στεναγμοῖσ ἕξεισ αὐλοῖσ μυκτήρων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri ix, chapter 19 2:6)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.