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σκευ-ή , ἡ,
A.equipment, attire, apparel, Hdt.7.15, S.OC555, E.Ba.180, etc.; “ς. Μηδικὰς ἐνδυόμενος” Th.1.130; “σκευήν τινα περιθέσθαι” Pl.Cri.53d; σκευῆς ἀνάθεσις, of the chorus, Lys.21.4; esp. of the dress of a singer or actor, ἐνδὺς πᾶσαν τὴν ς. Hdt.1.24, cf. Ar.Ra.108; τραγικὴ ς. Pl. R.577b; of soldiers, “ς. ψιλή” Th.3.94; “ἡ ς. τῶν ὅπλων” Id.1.8; of horse-trappings, Id.6.94; of the dress of priests and public officers, And.1.112, Eub.71.
2. fashion, style of dress or equipment, “Μηδικὴ αὕτη ἡ ς. ἐστι” Hdt.7.62; τὴν αὐτὴν ς. ἔχοντες ib.66, cf. 73, al.; “ἐπὶ πολὺ αὕτη ἡ ς. κατέσχεν” Th.1.6.
II. tackle, as of a net, Pi.P.2.80; of a ship, D.S.14.79, Act.Ap.27.19.
2. = αἰδοῖον, AP5.241 (Eratosth., where σκεϋήν ^^_, dub.l.); cf. “σκεῦος” 111.
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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