στομόω

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. IT 287.