χερείων χερείων, Doric χερῄων, ονος, ὁ, ἡ, Epic and dialect for χείρων meaner, inferior, in rank, worth or wealth, Hom. of things, οὔ τι χέρειον ʼtis not the worse part, i. e. ʼtis the better part, Od. besides this, we have several irreg. forms (as if from a nom. χέρης) , dat. χέρηι, acc. χέρηα, nom. pl. χέρηες, acc. neut. χέρηα, all used in compar. sense, χώσεται ἀνδρὶ χέρηι shall be wroth with a man of meaner rank, Il.; ἐσθλὰ μὲν ἐσθλὸς ἔδυνε, χέρηα δὲ χείρονι δόσκεν, where ἐσθλά ἐσθλός and χέρηα χείρονι are evidently correlative, Il.; with a gen., εἷο χέρηα inferior to himself, Il.; χέρηα πατρός Od.