pectinare

pectinare [CL] 1 to comb; b (hair or head); c (refl.); d (wool); e (animal); f (fig.). omnis quidem conjugationum quadripertita qualitas competenter dactilo mancipatur ut verbero, strangulo ‥ exulo, pectino, navigo Aldh. PR 120.  b ~o, -as, i. pectere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 435; ~are, sepe pectere Ib. 476; de hac lexivia caput sepius lavetur et ~etur Gilb. II 77 v. 1; lotis manibus et capitibus ~atis Obs. Barnwell 106; abbas vero ~ato capite et lotis manibus in vestiario Lib. Evesham 1; 1330 omni die ~abunt capita sua ante primam Cust. Cant. 8; deinde ~et caput Gad. 92. 2.  c deinde ad lavatorium vadant, et prius lavent se, et postea ~ent Lanfr. Const. 87; abbas ‥ ~are se debet in vestiario Cust. Westm. 57 (= Cust. Cant. 112).  d in j sacca ix petr. albe lane in stamine ~andis xlix s. Ac. Beaulieu 220; 1298 in lana ‥ ~anda Rec. Elton 83 (v. 1 filare 1).  e ~a asinum, ablue asinum, rade asinum, nunquam perduces asinum ad bonum equum O. Cheriton Fab. 22.  f si Tulliane facultatis fecunda facundia penetrans ~asset pectus meum, et ad liquidum limasset lingue plectrum Whittlesey app. 140. 2 to play by means of a plectrum. to wraste, ~are CathA 424.