gentle snappings

haustus, a, um, Part., from haurio.

haustus, ūs, m. [haurio], a drawing.

Lit.:

aqua, quae non sit haustus profundi,

Col. 1, 5, 1:

puteus in tenues plantas facili diffunditur haustu,

Juv. 3, 227; Mel. 2, 4, 4: aquae ductus, haustus, iter, actus, etc.... a jure civili sumitur, the right of drawing, * Cic. Caecin. 26, 74; Dig. 8, 3, 1:

haustus ex fonte privato,

ib. 8, 3, 3, § 3. —

Transf., a drinking, swallowing, drawing in; and concr., a drink, draught ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; for the most part only in the plur.):

largos haustus e fontibu' magnis Lingua fundet,

Lucr. 1, 412; cf.:

saepe, sed exiguis haustibus inde (i. e. rivo) bibi,

in small draughts, Ov. F. 3, 274:

haustu sparsus aquarum Ora fove,

Verg. G. 4, 229:

haustus aquae mihi nectar erit,

Ov. M. 6, 356:

undarum,

Luc. 3, 345:

Bacchi (i. e. vini) haustus,

Ov. M. 7, 450:

sanguinis,

i. e. the stream, current, id. ib. 4, 118:

Catulus se ignis haustu ludibrio hostium exemit,

swallowing, Flor. 3, 21, 15:

esse apibus partem divinae mentis et haustus Aetherios,

i. e. breath, soul, Verg. G. 4, 220; cf.:

alium domi esse caeli haustum, alium lucis aspectum,

Curt. 5, 5:

(canes) Suspensis teneros imitantur dentibus haustus,

i. e. gentle snappings, Lucr. 5, 1068:

peregrinae haustus arenae,

a handful, Ov. M. 13, 526; cf.:

angusti puero date pulveris haustus,

Stat. Th. 10, 427; v. haurio.—

Trop.:

Pindarici fontis qui non expalluit haustus,

i. e. to drink from, to imitate, Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 10:

justitiae haustus bibere,

Quint. 12, 2, 31.