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pluck up

pluck up:

I. Lit.:

1. ēvello, 3: to p. (pull) up a tree, arborem e., Liv. 33, 5, med.

2. ēruo, i, ŭtum, 3: to p. up (a plant) by the roots, radicitus e., Plin. 21, 11, 36.

II. Fig.: Phr.: to p. up courage, adesse animo (of more than one, animis), Cic. Mil. 2, 4 (less colloq. than Eng.): animum (animos) recipere a pavore (after being seized with panic), Liv. 2, 50, fin.; timorem omittere, Cic. l. c.

plug (subs.): perh. obtūrācŭlum, obtūrāmentum: v. STOPPER.

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