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1 arcuare [CL] 1 to curve, arch. b to encircle. cernuus ~atis poplitibus flexisque suffraginibus Aldh. Ep. 3 p. 479; cum postremo nasus ~ato acumine summitatis superficiem stimulabat R. Cold. Cuthb. 63 p. 124; molles aut arcuat artus / in talos refuga cervice Vinsauf PN 652.  b 1376 est mensura garbe quantum homo potest ~are cum uno brachio tenendo zonam suam cum manu sua IMisc 208/4. 2 (p. ppl.) curved, arched, twisted. b arched, vaulted. c (as sb. m.) jaundice. usus calceorum cum ~atis aculeis W. Malm. GR IV 314; pedem rigidum et ~atum supportare W. Cant. Mir. Thom. II 11; s1199 sic ~ato vulnere telum dilapsum est deorsum Coggesh. 78; c1250 ne [velum] ~ata tangat supercilia J. Godard Ep. 233.  b 1292 in vadiis carpentariorum ‥ operancium quandam portam archeatam KR Ac 486/7 (cf. ib.: cum ‥ iiij fenestris, quarum due sunt archeate); ibi [in Wokyhole] pendent pinnacula in le voult archuata mira-biliter de petris W. Worc. Itin. 288.  c elephanticus vel hicteris vel †artuatus, sydmycleadl Ælf. Gl.; dicitur morbus auriginosus et ~atus ab yride, id est ab arcu celesti Gilb. VI 257 v. 2.
2 arcuare v. artuare

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