baulk
From LSJ
ὅτι χρὴ τοῦ μέλιτος ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ, ἀλλὰ μὴ κοίλῃ χειρὶ γεύεσθαι → that honey should be tasted with the fingertip and not by the handful
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
cause to fail: P. and V. σφάλλω, σφάλλειν.
baulk of: P. and V. ψεύδειν (τινά τινος), P. ἐκκρούειν (τινά τινος); see baffle.
be baulked of: see lose.
in sooth much have my hopes baulked me of my reckoning: V. ἦ πολύ με δόξης ἐξέπαισαν ἐλπίδες (Euripides, h. F. 460).
