plucked out

ex-cŭtĭo, cussi, cussum, 3 (archaic perf. subj. excussit, for excusserit, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 16), v. a. [quatio], to shake out or off, to cast out, drive out, to send forth (class., esp. in the trop. sense).

Lit.

In gen.:

posse ex his (litteris) in terram excussis annales Ennii, ut deinceps legi possint, effici,

shaken out, Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 94:

equus excussit equitem,

threw off, Liv. 8, 7, 10:

excussus equo,

Verg. A. 11, 640:

excussus curru,

id. ib. 10, 590; Suet. Caes. 37; Curt. 3, 11; cf.:

lectis excussit utrumque,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 112:

gubernatorem in mare e puppi,

Curt. 4, 4 med.; cf.

also: ancora ictu ipso excussa e nave sua,

Liv. 37, 30, 9:

lapide clavum,

to knock off, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 10:

pulvis digitis excutiendus erit,

Ov. A. A. 1, 150:

poculum e manibus,

Pers. 3, 101:

ignem de crinibus,

to shake off, Ov. M. 12, 281:

rem de manu alicujus,

to strike out, Dig. 47, 2, 53, § 13:

Pelion subjectā Ossā (Juppiter),

Ov. M. 1, 155:

poma venti,

to cast down, shake down, id. ib. 14, 764 et saep.:

ne nucifrangibula (i. e. dentes) excussit ex malis meis,

to knock out, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 16; cf.:

cerebrum alicui,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 69; id. Aul. 2, 1, 29:

oculum alicui cyatho, verberibus,

id. Pers. 5, 2, 16; Suet. Tib. 53; cf.:

oculo excusso,

id. Caes. 68: ipso cum domino calce omnes excutiamus, to drive out or forth, Lucil. ap. Non. 298, 33:

Teucros vallo,

Verg. A. 9, 68:

hostem oppidis et regionibus,

Flor. 2, 6, 42:

ab obsidione Nolae urbis (with pellere a Campania),

id. ib. 29:

feras cubilibus,

to scare, rouse up, Plin. Pan. 81, 1:

si flava excutitur Chloë,

be shaken off, cast off, Hor. C. 3, 9, 19:

(viros) excussos patriā infesta sequi,

Verg. A. 7, 299:

ut me excutiam atque egrediar domo,

take myself off, decamp, Ter. Ph. 4, 1, 20:

quartanas,

to drive away, Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 56 et saep.:

(leo) gaudet comantes Excutiens cervice toros,

shaking about, shaking, Verg. A. 12, 7; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 71:

caesariem,

Ov. M. 4, 492:

pennas,

id. ib. 6, 703:

habenas,

id. ib. 5, 404; cf.:

nares inflare et movere... et pulso subito spiritu excutere, etc.,

to blow up, dilate, Quint. 11, 3, 80:

se (gallinae edito ovo),

Plin. 10, 41, 57, § 116:

tela,

to hurl, discharge, Tac. A. 2, 20; cf. Curt. 8, 13:

fulmen in Thebas,

Stat. Th. 10, 69:

excussaque brachia jacto,

tossed, Ov. M. 5, 596; id. H. 18, 189:

(aër) Excussit calidum flammis velocibus ignem,

sends out, produces, Lucr. 6, 688; cf. id. 6, 161: largum imbrem (procellae), Curt. 4, 7:

lacrimas alicui,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 59; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 15:

vomitum alicui,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 15:

sudorem,

Nep. Eum. 5 et saep.— Transf.:

excutior somno,

I am roused from sleep, Verg. A. 2, 302; Ov. H. 13, 111; Hor. S. 2, 6, 112.—

In partic., to shake out, shake.

Esp. a garment, to free it from dust:

vexatam solo vestem,

Petr. 128, 4; Vulg. Act. 18, 6; cf.:

excutere de pulvere,

shake yourself, Vulg. Isa. 52, 2; and:

pulverem de pedibus,

id. Matt. 10, 14.—

To stir, move any thing to see under it; and hence, to search, examine a person: St. Di me perdant, si ego tui quicquam abstuli. Eu. Agedum, excutedum pallium, Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 19; so,

culcitisque et stragulis praetentatis et excussis,

Suet. Claud. 35.—With personal objects: excutiuntur tabellarii, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 4; cf.:

verum (porcellum) ut subesse pallio contenderent Et excuti juberent,

Phaedr. 5, 5, 19:

non excutio te, si quid forte ferri habuisti: non scrutor,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 97.

Trop.

In gen., to shake out or off, force away, etc.:

omnes istorum delicias, omnes ineptias,

to shake off, discard, Cic. Cael. 28, 67:

noli aculeos orationis meae, qui reconditi sunt, excussos arbitrari,

plucked out, removed, id. Sull. 16, 47:

omnia ista nobis studia de manibus excutiuntur,

are torn, wrested from our hands, id. Mur. 14, 30; cf.:

hanc excutere opinionem mihimet volui radicitus,

id. Tusc. 1, 46, 111:

severitatem veterem,

id. Fam. 9, 10, 2; cf.

also: excutient tibi istam verborum jactationem,

id. Sull. 8, 24:

excute corde metum,

remove, banish, Ov. M. 3, 689:

diros amores,

id. ib. 10, 426:

orbem paci excutere,

to banish peace from the world, Luc. 1, 69:

omnis quae erat conceptae mentis intentio mora et interdum iracundia excutitur,

Quint. 10, 3, 20:

quem (Senecam) non equidem omnino conabar excutere,

id. 10, 1, 126:

aliena negotia curo, excussus propriis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 20:

dummodo risum excutiat sibi,

can raise, produce, id. ib. 1, 4, 35. —

In partic. (acc. to I. B.), to search, examine, inspect, investigate:

explicando excutiendoque verbo,

Cic. Part. Or. 36, 134; cf.: pervulgata atque in manibus jactata et excussa, qs. shaken out, i. e. examined, id. Mur. 12. 26:

illud excutiendum est, ut sciatur quid sit carere,

id. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

quae fere omnia Cicero in crimine veneficii excutit,

Quint. 5, 7, 37; 12, 8, 13:

totum locum,

id. 5, 7, 6:

aut conjecturā excutiuntur, an vera sint, etc.,

id. 5, 13, 19 et saep.— Hence, excussus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, extended, stiff (post-Aug. and rare):

interest, utrum tela excusso lacerto torqueantur, an remissa manu effluant,

Sen. Ben. 2, 6; so,

lacerto,

Ov. H. 4, 43:

palma excussissima,

Petr. 95.— Adv.: excussē, strongly, violently:

mittere pilam (with rigide, opp. languidius),

Sen. Ben. 2, 17, 4.

vello, vulsi, vulsum ( perf. velli, Calp. Ecl. 4, 155; Prisc. 10, 6, 36, p. 897 P.; Diom. 1, p. 369 ib.; ante-class. form of sup. volsum; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 576), 3, v. a. [prob. akin to hel-kô].

Prop.

Of animals, to pluck or pull, i. e. to deprive of the hair, feathers, etc.:

oves,

Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 9; Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 190:

anseres,

id. 10, 22, 27, § 53.—

Of things.

In gen., to pluck, pull, or tear out, away, or up; in simple constr.:

plumas anserum,

Col. 8, 13, 3:

caudae pilos equinae,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 45:

barbam,

id. S. 1, 3, 133:

tot spicula,

Verg. A. 10, 889:

comam,

Mart. 5, 37, 19:

cuneum vellito, statimque surculos in ea foramina immittito,

Col. 5, 11, 5; cf. id. Arb. 26, 4: signa, to take up, i. e. march, Verg. A. 11, 19; cf.:

ut vellerent signa et Romam proficiscerentur,

Liv. 3, 50, 11:

mors viscera vulsit,

Luc. 6, 546.—With ab and abl.:

postes a cardine vellit,

Verg. A. 2, 480:

albos a stirpe capillos,

Prop. 3 (4), 25, 13:

asparagum ab radice,

Plin. 19, 8, 42, § 149.—With abl. alone:

aut castris audebit vellere signa,

Verg. G. 4, 108:

genae florem primaevo corpore vulsit,

Luc. 6, 562:

adfixam oculo sagittam,

id. 6, 218:

vulsis pectore telis,

id. 6, 232; cf.:

unguibus et raras vellentem dentibus herbas,

Ov. M. 8,800.—With de and abl.:

hastam... de cespite vellit,

Verg. A. 11, 566:

herbas de caespite,

Luc. 4, 414.—

Esp.

To pluck, pull, or tear down or away:

cum pars vellerent vallum, atque in fossas proruerent,

Liv. 9, 14, 9; 10, 2, 5:

munimenta,

id. 2, 25, 3.—

To pluck, pull, pick, or gather fruit, etc.:

modo nata malā vellere poma manu,

Tib. 3, 5, 20.—

To pull, twitch, etc.:

aurem,

Verg. E. 6, 4; cf. id. Cop. 38; Calp. Ecl. 4, 155; Amm. 22, 3, 12:

vellere coepi Et prensare manu lentissima bracchia,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 63:

latus digitis,

Ov. A. A. 1, 606.—

To be plucked or pulled, i. e. to have the hair pulled out by the roots:

circa corporis curam morosior, ut non solum tonderetur diligenter ac raderetur, sed velleretur etiam,

Suet. Caes. 45.—

Trop., to tear, torment:

sed mea secreto velluntur pectora morsu,

Stat. S. 5, 2, 3.—Hence, P. a.: vulsus ( volsus), a, um.

Lit., shorn, plucked, smooth, beardless, hairless:

istum gallum Glabriorem reddes mihi quam volsus ludiust,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 6:

vulsi levatique et inustas comas acu comentes,

Quint. 2, 5, 12:

corpus vulsum,

id. 5, 9, 14:

eadem (corpora) si quis vulsa atque fucata muliebriter comat,

id. 8, prooem. 19:

nepos,

Prop. 4 (5), 8, 23.—

Trop., effeminate:

mens,

Mart. 2, 36, 6.—

Suffering convulsions, spasmodic, Plin. 21, 19, 74, § 126; 23, 1, 16, § 25.

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dē-pĭlo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to pull out the hair, pluck out the feathers.

Prop. (ante-class. and post-Aug., and rare):

depilari magis quam amiciri,

Tert. Pall. 4:

perdicem,

Apic. 6, 3; Mart. 9, 28:

struthiocamelum,

Sen. Cons. Sap. 17:

amygdalae,

Apic. 2, 2.—

Transf., dēpĭlātus, plucked, i. e. plundered, cheated, Lucil. ap. Non. 36, 28.—

To rub off the skin, peel:

omnis umerus depilatus est,

Vulg. Ezech. 29, 18.