Lewis Short
(verb) : ex-cūdo, di, sum, 3
* To strike, beat or hammer out.
* Lit.: silici scintillam,Verg. A. 1, 174: ignem,Plin. 16, 40, 77, § 208.
* Transf., to hatch out: pullos ex ovis,Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf. Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 2; 10; 13: anseres aliena ova non excudunt,i. e. do not hatch them,id. ib. 3, 10, 3; § 4; 3, 9, 2; Col. 8, 14, 7.
* To forge, mould: excudent alii spirantia mollius aera,Verg. A. 6, 848.
* In gen., to prepare, make any thing: ceras,Verg. G. 4, 57.
* Trop., of a writing, to compose: excudam aliquid Ἡρακλείδειον, Cic. Att. 15, 27, 2; Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 4; Tac. de Or. 9.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary