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ἐνσκίμπτω , poet. ἐνισκ- , Ep. and Lyr. form of ἐνσκήπτω,
A.lean upon, οὔδει ἐνισκίμψαντε καρήατα, of horses hanging their heads in grief for their master's loss, Il.17.437; fix, plant in, “βέλος ἐνισκ. τινί” A.R.3.153; ἐ. βολῇσι smite with its beams, of dawn, Id.4.113:— Pass., stick in, “δόρυ οὔδει ἐνεσκίμφθη” Il.16.612.
II. hurl upon one, “κεραυνὸς ἐνέσκιμψε μόρον” Pi.P.3.58 (v.l. ἐνέσκηψε）“; ὁππότ᾽ ἀνίας . . πραπίδεσσιν ἐνισκίμψωσιν Ἔρωτες” A.R.3.765; of a snake, “ἐνισκ. ἰόν” Nic.Th.140; βλοσυρὸν δάκος ib.336.
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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