involitare

involitare [CL] 1 to fly or float (on; fig., of hair). [mulieris] crinis solutus humeris involitabat, quem vitta aurea superne constrinxerat [= Eul. Hist. I 395: involutabat] W. Malm. GR II 205; volo ‥ componitur ~o ‥ et per compositionem involare, i. aliquid in manu continere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 612. 2 to flee. eques ‥ Lotharingus, qui in extremo agmine cum domino suo erat, a lateribus ~ans libertatem fuge et campos abstulit omnes W. Malm. GR IV 371.

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