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ἀναστομόω

ἀναστομόω, to furnish with a mouth

ἀναστομ-όω,
  • furnish with a mouth, open up; τάφρον clear out a trench, X. Cyr. 7.5.15; τὰς Νείλου διώρυγας Plb. 5.62.4, cf. S.E. M. 5.59; ταῦτα τῶν ἡδυσμάτων ἀ. τᾀσθητήρια Diph. 18.6: ἀ. μήτραν Dsc. 1.19:—Med., φάρυγος ἀναστόμου τὸ χεῖλος open your gullet wide, E. Cyc. 357:—Pass., τραυλὴ μέν ἐστιν, ἀλλʼ ἀνεστομωμένη with mouth wide-opened, loud-talking, Call.Com. 19; also, to be opened, dilated, ἀ. οἱ πόροι Arist. HA 581b19, GA 751a2; ἰχῶρες ἀναστομωθείσης τῆς σαρκὸς ἐξέρρεον Memn. 2.
      • 2 of one sea opening into another, κατὰ στενοπόρους αὐχένας ἀνεστομωμένος Arist. Mu. 303a22; ὁ Ἀράβιος κόλπος ἀνεστόμωται εἰς τὸν . . Ὠκεανόν D.S. 3.38, cf. Ph. 2.475, Hld. 1.29.

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