wart

WART

verruca. Covered with warts verrucosus (Cic.).

wart: verrūca: basil removes w.s, ocimum tollit verrucas, Plin. Fig.: let him pardon his friend's w.s (small failings), ignoscat verrucis amici, Hor. S. 1, 3, 74. Phr.: covered with w.s, warty, verrūcosus (an appellation of Q. Fabius in Cic. Brut. 14, 57). Fig.: warty (rugged) Antiopa, v. Antiopa, Pers. 1, 77.