verrere

1 verrere [CL] 1 to remove with a broom or brush, sweep away (in quot. fig.). hanc ‥ paginam Cato despiciat / et stili vicia qui callet feriat, / aut verrat omnia vel veru fodiat Walt. Wimb. Palpo 183. 2 to sweep along, carry along with force. b (in gl.). horum archon, atrociter / fumam [v. l. fumum] verrens, ferociter / furibundus cum flamine / veniebat (Aldh.) Carm. Aldh. 1. 34; Africus et violens spumosas verrit harenas Altercatio 61; aquarum furor ‥ fundo ab imo ~ens harenas et conglobans in cumulum, cum impetu venit W. Malm. GP IV 153.  b ~ere, trahere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 617. 3 to brush, sweep (surface): a (with thing trailed or dragged across it); b (of trailed or dragged thing). c to pass or sweep over (esp. surface) with force or speed (also transf. or fig.). a proflua vestis regine ‥ dum lutosum pavimentum ~endo sordidatur Gosc. Transl. Mild. 21; humum ‥ pulverulentam ‥ palliorum ‥ sirmate ~unt Ord. Vit. VIII 10 p. 324; his [genibus] squalentes pulvere semitas ~ebat ‥ his lutosum solum evadebat W. Malm. GP V 262; quid est hoc, Theodora, unde ~is terram? V. Chris. Marky. 33.  b caudatas in longum tunicas pulverem trahentes et terram ~entes Gir. GE II 22.  c qui [S. Johannes] prius algosis verrebat caerula remis / piscibus insidias nectens sub gurgite ponti Aldh. CE 4. 5. 5; aequora tremebundo gurgite ~unt [beluae marinae] Lib. Monstr. II pref.; quasi formicarum greges ‥ de tumulis ~entes, aggerem contra domum cadentem muniebant Eddi 19; grandine ac frigore nivium omnia perflante atque ~ente Bede HE V 12 p. 305; ~entibus undique fluctibus navem in qua dormiebat [Christus] Id. Mark 175B (cf. ib. 196C: inter undas procellasque temptationum ~entium); c720 tamquam spumosi maris vortices ~unt (Eangyth) Ep. Bonif. 14 p. 22; nam properans patuli dum verreret aequora campi Frith. 783; flatus violentia terga maris ~ebat W. Malm. GR IV 320; naute / cerula dum verrunt in sua transtra cadunt L. Durh. Dial. III 112.

2 verrere [cf. CL verres], (of pig or sim., also transf.) to grub up, to root (also trans.). b (pr. ppl. understood as sb., act of) rooting, grubbing in the earth. si porci ~ant pratum alienum, dominus illorum tenetur omnes verrificationes implere frumento (Stat. Willelmi 24) RegiamM II p. 12; 1404 per eversionem vesture terre per porcos domesticos in eadem foresta continue ~entes et terram evertentes Enr. Chester 77 r. 2d.; nobiles ligneis obumbrati machinis que, quia ~ere videbantur in antra, ‘sues’ appellari non videtur inconsonum Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 59; to wroote, ~ere CathA.  b a wrotynge, ~ens CathA.