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oblimare

1 oblimare [CL; cf. limus=mud] 1 to fill with mud or slime, clog up. prostitute igitur ex frequentia coitus matrices habent ~atas, villosque in quibus semen retinere debent coopertos Quaest. Salern. B 12; nunc stagni fetoribus cenoque ~atus sorderet, lingue semper sue continuabantur incendia Ad. Eyns. Visio 35. 2 to make dark or obscure. ~are, obscurum facere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 402.
2 oblimare [LL; cf. lima=file] , to make clean, scour, polish. ~at, limpidat GlC O 84 (v. limpidare); olimat, limpidat Ib. 146.

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