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devello

dē-vello, velli, vulsum, (perf. devolsit, Cat. 63, 5), 3, v. a.,
  • to pluck down, to pull or tear off (very rare; not in Cic. and Caes.): pennas, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 50 (872); cf.: plumam anseribus, Fronto Ep. ad Verr. 1 fin.: plantas de matrum radice, Pall. Mart. 10, 1: effigies (sc. in Tiberim; cf. Suet. Vit. 17, and Juv. 10, 58), Tac. A. 3, 14. In an obscene sense: concubinas (i. e. depilare), Suet. Dom. 22.

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