Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Vellicating"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Vellicate \Vel"li*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vellicated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Vellicating}.] [L. vellicatus, p. p. of
vellicare to twitch, fr. vellere to pluck, pull.]
To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively.

Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve
in its extremity, are not very dangerous. --Arbuthnot.


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