nigrare

nigrare [CL] 1 (intr) to be black; b (w. acc. denoting black part); c (w. abl.). dum caput ex herebo nigrantis filia noctis / tollit Aldh. VirgV 2637. b quid morer? accipitres nigrantes undique linguam, / albentesque pedem dant loca culta parum L. Durh. Dial. II 165. c florida me genuit nigrantem corpore tellus Aldh. Aen. 97 (Nox) 1. 2 (trans) to make black (p. ppl. as adj.). lucida nigratis fuscans anfractibus arva Aldh. Aen. 59 (Penna) 5; crine ~ato [v. l. nigro] et juxta frontem profugo Eul. Hist. III 57. 3 (in gl). ~o, -as, quod non est in usu Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 373.

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