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στολ-ή , ἡ, Aeol. σπολά (q.v.): (στέλλω):—
A.equipment, fitting out, “στρατοῦ” A.Supp.764.
2. armament, Id.Pers.1018 (lyr.).
II. equipment in clothes, raiment, ib.192; σχῆμα Ἑλλάδος ς. S.Ph.224, cf. E.Heracl.130; “ἱππάδα στολὴν ἐνεσταλμένοι” Hdt.1.80; “ς. ἱππική” Ar.Ec.846; “Σκυθική” Hdt.4.78; “Θρῃκία” E.Rh.313; “Μηδική” X.Cyr.8.1.40; “γυναικεία” Ar.Th.851, cf. 92; “τοξική” Pl.Lg.833b; “στολὴν ἔχειν ἢν ἂμ βούληται” SIG1003.14 (Priene, ii B.C.): metaph. of birds, “ς. πτερῶν” Ach.Tat.1.15.
2. garment, robe, S.OC1357,1597, PCair.Zen.54.32 (pl.), 263.4,8 (iii B.C.), BGU1860.4 (i B.C.), etc.; ς. θηρός, of the lion's skin which Heracles wore, E.HF465; ἐν ς. περιπατεῖν in full dress, M.Ant.1.7 (v.l. -λίῳ ap.Suid.), cf. Ev.Marc.12.38.
3. act of dressing, μετὰ τὴν ς. Orib.Syn.5.21.
III. (στέλλω IV) check to motion, pressure, “τοῦ ἀέρος” Epicur.Nat.11.11, cf. 14.4.
2. reduction, diminution, “τῶν σιτίων” Herod.Med. ap. Aët.5.129.
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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