sulcare

sulcare [CL] 1 to make furrows in, to plough (also fig.). b (transf., of vessel passing through water, also intr. w. per) to plough through, traverse. c to bore through, carve a hole through. d to dig, turn over (earth), to make a trench in; e (fig.). sulcati per squalida jugera ruris Aldh. VirgV 113; planos compellor sulcare per aequora campos Tatwine Aen. 6 (Penna) 4; at sulcata manens semper sum seminis expers Hwætberht Aen. 31 (Cera) 2; significat virgines, quae non sunt ~ate per virilis amplexus vomeres Hon. Sig. 499A; nec populi mentes doctrine vomere sulcant Gower VC III 1055.  b turgida cum ratibus sulcabat caerula curvis / et maris aequoreos lustrabat remige campos Aldh. CE 3. 20; currimus ad votum; vis bona sulcat aquam L. Durh. Dial. III 82; naves per equora inquieta ~antes ad portam salutis attingunt R. Cold. Cuthb. 83; velis ~antibus equor ventoque ad vota spirante ad ‥ regem ‥ auxilium ‥ postulaturus accessit Gir. EH I 1; s1297 rex ‥ naves ingressus, indissoluta classe, ~ato mari ‥ applicuit in Flandria Rish. 177; sculcaturi maria et Franciam ‥ invasuri Chr. S. Alb. 65.  c grandior in glaucis ballena fluctibus atra / et minor exiguo, sulcat qui corpora, verme Aldh. Aen. 100 (Creatura) 65; si cordis peplum corrodens tinea sulcat Id. VirgV 2756.  d quadam die in insula fodiens ~abat terram V. Cuthb. III 5; aliquantulam agri sui partem jam pedibus ~ando effoderat R. Cold. Godr. 100.  e jam arctius stilo inchoati opusculi materiam ~ando rimante Chr. Battle f. 12. 2 to furrow, make (surface of body) wrinkly (also in transf. context). b (p. ppl. as adj.) furrowed, ridged (also transf.). c to mark (surface) with furrows (also transf., w. ref. to writing or sim.). in arce, / ‥ qua ‥ / ‥ numquam aggreditur rugis sulcata senectus Aldh. VirgV 2287; non frontem ~abant ruge densiores H. Bos. Thom. VI 14; cum facie frontem sulcabit ruga senilis D. Bec. 1689.  b montanus torrens ‥ ~ato dorso fronteque acra erectis ‥ ad nebulas undis ‥ spumans Gildas EB 17; corpore sulcato ‥ / sum formata Aldh. Aen. 21 (Lima) 1.  c scrobem ~are Aldh. VirgV 643 (v. 2 sulcus 3); ille crucis pingens per ter signacula sulcat Ib. 821; tabulae decalogi litteris ~atae [gl.: gefyrede] Id. VirgP 45; vir volat ad tumulum quo sanctus corpore praesul / marmore sulcato fatali sorte quiescit Mir. Nin. 327. 3 to prepare, or ? f. l. intima consilia tua nesciat intimus hostis / cui mala sulcasti, licet oscula dentur amici D. Bec. 626.