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στείνω ,
A.make strait, straiten, confine, crowd, “στείνοντες” Nonn.D.23.5: Ep. impf. “στεῖνον” Orph.A.114.
II. used by Hom. and Hes. only in pres. and impf. Pass., to become strait, be narrowed, “θύρετρα φεύγοντι στείνοιτο” Od.18.386; of persons, to be straitened for room, “στείνοντο δὲ λαοί” Il.14.34; of sheep, A.R.2.128.
2. to be or become full, be thronged, “γαῖα στεινομένη” Hes.Th.160: c. gen., “στείνοντο δὲ σηκοὶ ἀρνῶν ἠδ᾽ ἐρίφων” Od.9.219; “νεκρῶν ἐστείνετο γαῖα” Q.S.7.100: c. dat., [ποταμὸς] στεινόμενος νεκύεσσι crowded with . . , Il.21.220; “νῆσοι στεινόμεναι Κόλχοισι” A.R.4.335; πώεσι . . αὐλὴ ς. Opp.H.4.398; στείνοντο . . ἀγροὶ μυκηθμῷ were filled with . . , Theoc.25.97.
3. metaph., to be straitened, distressed, ἀρνειὸς λάχνῳ στεινόμενος burdened with its wool, Od.9.445. (στέν-yω, cf. στενός.)
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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