pluck
pluck
subs.
Use courage.
subs.
Use courage.
pluck
v. trans.
Cull: P. and V. δρέπειν or mid.) (Plat.).
Deprive (of hair, feathers, etc.): Ar. and V. τίλλειν, Ar. ἀ̆ποτίλλειν.
Met., see fleece.
The females help to pluck out his feathers: Ar. αἱ θήλειαι προσεκτίλλουσιν αὐτοῦ τὰ πτερά (Ar. 286).
Seize hold of: P. and V. λαμβά̆νεσθαι (gen.).
Pluck out: P. and V. ἀποσπᾶν.
Newly plucked, newly gathered: V. νεόδρεπτος, νεόδροπος, νεοσπά̆ς.
v. trans.
Cull: P. and V. δρέπειν or mid.) (Plat.).
Deprive (of hair, feathers, etc.): Ar. and V. τίλλειν, Ar. ἀ̆ποτίλλειν.
Met., see fleece.
The females help to pluck out his feathers: Ar. αἱ θήλειαι προσεκτίλλουσιν αὐτοῦ τὰ πτερά (Ar. 286).
Seize hold of: P. and V. λαμβά̆νεσθαι (gen.).
Pluck out: P. and V. ἀποσπᾶν.
Newly plucked, newly gathered: V. νεόδρεπτος, νεόδροπος, νεοσπά̆ς.
PLUCK
v. To pull sharply vellere: vellicare. To pluck up by the roots radicitus vellere; evellere convellere: to pluck a bird; i.e. pull its feathers out avem vellere (e.g. pullos anserum Col.); *avi pennas evellere or auferre.
Pluck out vellere (e.g. lanam capillos: pullos anserum Col.; pilos): evellere (pluck out or up; e.g. linguam Marco Catoni: spinas agio). To pluck out anybody’s eyes oculos alicui eripere or eruere.
Pluck off = gather carpere: decerpere (general terms): legere (with selection; fruits and flowers): sublegere (to pluck off some; i.e. to thin a fruit-tree): destringere alicui aliquid (berries and leaves): avellere (pluck off; e.g. poma ex arboribus Plin.): detrahere alicui aliquid (take away from; fruits): Flowers plucked flores carpti or demessi.
To pluck up courage animum or (of several) animos capere or colligere: to pluck up courage again animum or se recipere: to cause anybody to pluck up courage animum alicui facere or afferre or addere (of things): to bid anybody pluck up his courage alicujus animum verbis confirmare; firmare or confirmare aliquem or alicujus animum.
v. To pull sharply vellere: vellicare. To pluck up by the roots radicitus vellere; evellere convellere: to pluck a bird; i.e. pull its feathers out avem vellere (e.g. pullos anserum Col.); *avi pennas evellere or auferre.
Pluck out vellere (e.g. lanam capillos: pullos anserum Col.; pilos): evellere (pluck out or up; e.g. linguam Marco Catoni: spinas agio). To pluck out anybody’s eyes oculos alicui eripere or eruere.
Pluck off = gather carpere: decerpere (general terms): legere (with selection; fruits and flowers): sublegere (to pluck off some; i.e. to thin a fruit-tree): destringere alicui aliquid (berries and leaves): avellere (pluck off; e.g. poma ex arboribus Plin.): detrahere alicui aliquid (take away from; fruits): Flowers plucked flores carpti or demessi.
To pluck up courage animum or (of several) animos capere or colligere: to pluck up courage again animum or se recipere: to cause anybody to pluck up courage animum alicui facere or afferre or addere (of things): to bid anybody pluck up his courage alicujus animum verbis confirmare; firmare or confirmare aliquem or alicujus animum.
s. The heart liver and lights drawn from an animal exta -orum nominative plur.
Figuratively. In low language = courage animus fortis; virtus.
Figuratively. In low language = courage animus fortis; virtus.
pluck (subs.): *viscera veterinaria. For fig. sense, v. COURAGE , SPIRIT .
pluck (v.):
I. To gather flowers, fruit, etc.:
1. carpo, psi, ptum, 3: to p. a rose, rosam c., Virg. G. 4, 134: Ov.: Col. So, dēcerpo, 3: to p. the fresh flowers, novos d. flores, Lucr.: Virg.: Ov.
2. lĕgo, 3: v.TO GATHER (II.).
II. To strip off the feathers of birds, etc.: vello, i, vulsum, 3: to p. geese, anseres v., Plin. 10, 22, 27 (also, plumam [anserum] v., Col. 8, 13): Suet. (Avi pennas evellere, to p. out the wing feathers or quills: cf. Phaedr. 1, 3, 8.) See also foll. artt.
I. To gather flowers, fruit, etc.:
1. carpo, psi, ptum, 3: to p. a rose, rosam c., Virg. G. 4, 134: Ov.: Col. So, dēcerpo, 3: to p. the fresh flowers, novos d. flores, Lucr.: Virg.: Ov.
2. lĕgo, 3: v.
II. To strip off the feathers of birds, etc.: vello, i, vulsum, 3: to p. geese, anseres v., Plin. 10, 22, 27 (also, plumam [anserum] v., Col. 8, 13): Suet. (Avi pennas evellere, to p. out the wing feathers or quills: cf. Phaedr. 1, 3, 8.) See also foll. artt.
rapio
to seize and carry off, abduct (and rape), snatch, tear, pluck, drag, hurry away
eripio
to tear out, snatch away, wrest, pluck, tear, take away
carpo
to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather
vello
to pluck, pull, tear away, pull out
avello
to tear away, rend off, pluck, snatch away
decerpo
to pluck off, tear away, break off, pluck, crop, gather
to take, enjoy, pluck, gather
vellico
to pluck, twitch, twit, taunt, carp, rail at
to seize and carry off, abduct (and rape), snatch, tear, pluck, drag, hurry away
eripio
to tear out, snatch away, wrest, pluck, tear, take away
carpo
to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather
vello
to pluck, pull, tear away, pull out
avello
to tear away, rend off, pluck, snatch away
decerpo
to pluck off, tear away, break off, pluck, crop, gather
appearing fewer than 50 times
deliboto take, enjoy, pluck, gather
vellico
to pluck, twitch, twit, taunt, carp, rail at