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στομόω , (στόμα)
A.muzzle or gag, Hdt.4.69:—Pass., πώλους . . φιμοῖσιν . . ἐστομωμένας having their mouths muzzled, A.Fr.326.
II. (“στόμα” 11) furnish with a mouth or opening, “λιμένα” Poll.2.100.
2. Medic.,= ἀναστομόω, open, either by the knife, or by plasters, Hp. Art.40, cf. Heliod. ap. Orib.44.8.21; dilate, of the womb, Hp.Mul.1.25 (Pass.).
3. metaph., provide with a mouth, i.e. with eloquence, prob. in E.Cret.44 (Pass.).
III. (“στόμα” 111.1) of iron, harden, make into steel, in Pass., Ph.Bel.102.20, Plu.2.943e; [“ἔγχος] ἐστομωμένον” Epigr.Gr.790.5 (Achaea); Chrysippus compared the creation of the soul to the hardening of πνεῦμα in the cold air, Stoic.2.134, 222.
2. metaph., steel, harden, train for anything, Ar.Nu.1108,1110; “ς. στομάχους” Muson.Fr.18Ap.97H. (Pass.):—Pass., στομοῦσθαι καὶ κρατύνεσθαι [τὰ βρέφη] Plu.Lyc.16.
IV. ἀκοντισταῖς τὴν οὐραγίαν καὶ τὰς πλευρὰς ς. edge, fringe, fence with javelin-men, Id.Ant.42; so perh., in Pass., [“δράκαινα] ἐχίδναις ἐστομωμένη” E.IT287.
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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