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terebro
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Lewis Short
(verb) : tĕrēbro, āvi, ătum, 1, terebra
* To bore, bore through, perforate (not in Cic.; syn.: foro, perforo)
* Lit.: terebrā vitem pertundito...artitoque eā quā terebraveris,Cato, R. R. 41, 3: vites Gallicā terebrā,Col. 5, 9, 16: ossa (capitis),Liv. Ep. 52 med.: cavas uteri latebras,Verg. A. 2. 38: telo lumen acuto,id. ib. 3, 635: buxum per rara foramina,Ov. F. 6, 697: gemmā terebratā, Vitr 9, 9: vitem in oblicum,Plin. 17, 18, 25, § 115; Col. 5, 9, 16: gryllus quoniam terram terebret,Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 138.
* Transt., to bore out: regustatum digito terebrare salinum Contentus perages, to bore out the salt-dish with the fingers; to hunt out the last grain,Pers. 5, 138.
* Trop., to insinuate one's self, to coax, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 82; so perh. also, id Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. subscudes, p. 306 Müll.
* To bore, bore through, perforate (not in Cic.; syn.: foro, perforo)
* Lit.: terebrā vitem pertundito...artitoque eā quā terebraveris,Cato, R. R. 41, 3: vites Gallicā terebrā,Col. 5, 9, 16: ossa (capitis),Liv. Ep. 52 med.: cavas uteri latebras,Verg. A. 2. 38: telo lumen acuto,id. ib. 3, 635: buxum per rara foramina,Ov. F. 6, 697: gemmā terebratā, Vitr 9, 9: vitem in oblicum,Plin. 17, 18, 25, § 115; Col. 5, 9, 16: gryllus quoniam terram terebret,Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 138.
* Transt., to bore out: regustatum digito terebrare salinum Contentus perages, to bore out the salt-dish with the fingers; to hunt out the last grain,Pers. 5, 138.
* Trop., to insinuate one's self, to coax, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 82; so perh. also, id Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. subscudes, p. 306 Müll.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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