vellicare

vellicare [CL] 1 to pull at or on (hair or sim.), (also) to remove by pulling, pull or pluck out. b to remove by pulling, pull off or away (part of plant, also plant from ground). c (in gl.). idem circa sepulchrum Domini fatiebant Siri, vi doloris barbas et capillos ~antes W. Malm. GR IV 379; [Romani] sectabantur ‥ luxurie effusiones ‥ vultum dealbare, genas punicare, barbam ~are, et cum his omnibus sevitiam intollerabilem exercere studebant M. Par. Maj. I 111; veluti capillitio ~antes More Ut. 10.  b pastor caprarius ~ans sycomoros [cf. Am. vii 14] Gildas EB 53; ut pecus agrestes ex prato vellicat herbas Aldh. VirgV 2775; tetigit pastorem ~antem sicomores, et prophetam fecit H. Los. Serm. 266; 1168 ceterum nichil prohibet exulem in deserto pastorum cum eis siccamina [v. l. siccamoros] ~are J. Sal. Ep. 281 (250); nihil apparatui huic et spicis illis quas discipuli ~antes et manibus confricantes edebant [cf. Matth. xii 1, Marc. ii 23, Luc. vi 1 ] H. Bos. Thom. III 15; adduxit validiorem rationem quia ipse erat Deus sabbati, et ideo poterat eis dare licentiam ~andi spicas in sabbato T. Chobham Praed. 299.  c lancinat, bellicat GlC L 58; villicat, twiccað WW; eruncare, evellere, ~are Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 199; ~are, vellere, eradicare, extirpare, erruncare Ib. 626; to pylle barke, corticare, decorticare, excorticare. to pille, ~are. to pille garleke, ~are ‥ pyllynge, ~ans CathA. 2 to strip away (for oneself), take away, steal (esp. taking in part or a little at a time). b to strip away at, to take away or steal from (esp. taking in part or a little at a time), to rob (of). c to carp at, ‘tear a strip off’. predones abstulerunt omnia [predia] preter ista, licet et de his partem ~averint W. Malm. GP V 211; ne hic solus communem gloriam vel vendicet totam vel ~et partem Ib. V 251; cum quidam abutentes ejus absentia terras ipsius undique ~arent Id. HN 506; ut posteri sui plus ab ipsis villicarint quam adjecerint Fordun Chr. V 28.  b mater ecclesiarum in Cantuaria ‥ annuis et sepe etiam menstruis exactoribus [? l. exactionibus] ~abatur W. Malm. GP I 47; s1137 rex ‥ coram pulchre jocundeque comitem appellans, retro maledicis verbis mordebat et quibus poterat possessionibus ~abat Id. HN 466; qui [sc. judex] et sumptus gloriosissime Agneti famulantium unius orti ~avit dispendio Id. Mir. Mariae 193.  c illud te intelligere par est, neminem me de historicis ~asse, quorum omnis ad hoc laborat intentio ut sua insigniant scripta memoriali aliquo dicto vel facto W. Malm. Polyh. 37.