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εὐναῖος , α, ον, (εὐνή)
A.in one's bed or couch, εὐ. [λαγώς] a hare in its form, X.Cyn.5.9; εὐ. [ἴχνη] traces of the form, ib.7, cf. S.Fr.174, Ichn. 226, Stratt.3 (dub. l.).
2. mostly of the marriage-bed, εὐ. δάμαρ, γαμέτας, A.Fr.383, E.Supp.1028 (lyr.); “Κύπρις” Id.Andr.179; “εὐ. γάμοι” A.Supp.332; ἄτα εὐ., of Helen, E.Andr.104 (eleg.); “λέχος” Critias 2.6 D.; “θάλαμοι” BCH29.412 (Callatis).
3. keeping one's bed, “λύπᾳ εὐναία δέδεται ψυχά” E.Hipp.160 (lyr.); εὐ. πτέρυγες brooding, of a bird on the nest, AP9.95 (Alph.).
4. εὐναία, ἡ, a nest (v. sub καρφηρός); but εὐναῖα, τά, bed, is f.l. in Orph.L.223.
5. personified, Εὐναίη, ἡ, the Spirit of Repose, Emp.123.1.
II. (“εὐνή” 11) of or for anchorage: hence, generally, steadying, guiding a ship, “πηδάλια” E.IT432 (lyr.).
2. as Subst., εὐναία, = εὐνή 11, an anchor, “λίθος εὐναίης” A.R.1.955: in pl., ib.1277.
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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