tricari

tricari [CL not in sense 1], ~are 1 (trans.) to braid. b to weave, make by braiding (in quot., fig.). Polyhymnia tricat [crines] / et rotat in conum tricatos more Laconum R. Cant. Malch. IV 564. b explanato quinque ordinum tramite ‥ anomala, quae ‥ per eclipseos repagulum subtiliter analogiam tricant ‥ persequamur Bonif. AG 488. 2 (intr.) to create a tangle of difficulties, behave in an evasive manner, (also) to be slow (esp. to progress or arrive), delay; b (w. inf.). c717 mallui [sic] mori si sic Deo ‥ placuisset vel tarda mors non ~averit (Ecgburg) Ep. Bonif. 13; quin totos semper perfert jejunia soles, / sanctorum Domini veluti sollempnia tricent Æthelwulf Abb. 292; quid tricor dictis? dabitur nunc his quoque finis Frith. 1331; dixit non esse legitimam [cartam] ‥. ita illo [legato] ~ante W. Malm. HN 496. b quodcumque inveneris in vasculo, non ~are nobis adferre Alcuin Vedast. 5. 3 (trans.) to delay, retard, impede, (also refl.) to be slow, delay. licet planetarum retrogradis cursibus ~entur [orbes caelorum] Aldh. Met. 3; epistolarum vestrarum ‥ vicissitudo quasi quodam dilationis obstaculo ~abatur Id. VirgP 59; ac dura Parcarum quies et ferreus leti somnus palpebrarum convolatus non ~averit Ib. 60; ignavos oculos et linguam famine trico Bonif. Aen. (Ebrietas) 282; nullum natalis soli caritas ~et ‥ nullum patrimoniorum amplitudo remoretur W. Malm. GR IV 347; cum monachi ‥ mediis noctibus eventu alicujus prodigii sese inopes quippe sompni ~arent, non latuit torpor eorum sancti oculum delonge intuentem Id. GP II 75 p. 168; ~are, impedire, illaqueare, involvere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 591.

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