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vellere [CL] 1 to pull at or on (hair or sim.), (also) to remove by pulling, pull or pluck out. plorant, ejulant, scindunt vestes, ~unt crines Gosc. Edith 274; si crinem turbatum et turpatum protrahit, si barbam ~it J. Sal. Pol. 591D; vim nimis audax infero; / hec ungue sevit aspero, / comas vellit, / vim repellit / strenua P. Blois Carm. 10. 4a; quidam ‥ admirans corporis integritatem, barbe ‥ temeraria presumptione tentare volens an pili firmis carni radicibus inhererent, ~ere manu fortiter cepit sed nec unum avellere potuit Gir. Rem. 10. 2 to remove by pulling, pull off or away (part of plant; in quot. w. ref. to Matth. xii 1, Marc. ii 23, Luc. vi 1). b to pull up, uproot (plant from the ground). c to remove plants from (ground or sim.) by pulling (also fig.). mira sacramenti concordia quia et ibi mactari ac manducari jubentur animalia ‥ et hic spicas domino lustrante consecratas vulsisse discipuli atque juxta aliorum narrationem evangelistarum confricantes manibus manducasse perhibentur Bede Mark 153B (cf. id. Luke 393B); si ‥ immaturas segetes inveniebant, spicas ~ebant, et fricantes masticabant et glutiebant Ord. Vit. IX 8 p. 512; discipuli, ipso presente, solvebant sabbatum quando ~ebant spicas et confricabant manibus in sabbato Gros. Gal. 66.  b id est, penitus eum subverti, sicut arbor que radicitus ~itur (Andr. S. Vict. Super Duodecim Prophetas) CC cont. med. LIIIG 120; runcare, herbas ~ere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 506; hec est radix amaritudinis ‥ inter manus ~entium pullulat rediviva plantatio G. Hoyland Ascet. 277A; vellite pro nostris semina sparsa malis Walt. Angl. Fab. 25. 4; c1250 dedi ‥ eisdem licenciam et libertatem inperpetuum ~endi bruerium ubicumque voluerint Kelso 122.  c quid, dum scribis, rogo pro munere? / cor hoc vellas in stili vomere J. Howd. Ph. 728; ~o, A. to wedy WW. 3 to remove forcibly, tear up, destroy, eradicate. num quid deficiet de petra agri nix Libani aut ~i [cf. Jer. xviii 14: evelli] possunt aquae erumpentes frigidae defluentes? Gildas EB 50; et caput infandum funestos liquerat artus / quod vulsum ex umeris cives in limine cernunt Aldh. VirgV 1362; isque benignivolam firmans in presule curam / edixit priscum nullo frustramine foedus / vellere, apostolica donec remearet ab aula Frith. 1112; hereses ~ens radiciter Neckam DS V 483; paupertas vellit multos et ab ede repellit, / et male percellit et eos ab honore revellit Garl. Mor. Scol. 515.

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