Crossword-Solution: VELLICATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vellicate | v. t. | To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively. |
| Vellicate | v. i. | To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with VELLICATE (5)
Some think these almonds have a penetrating, abstersive quality, are able to cleanse the face, and clear it from the common freckles; and therefore, when they are eaten, by their bitterness vellicate and fret the pores, and by that means draw down the ascending vapors from the head.
But our baths now inflame, vellicate, and distress; and the air which we draw is a mixture of air and water, disturbs the whole body, tosses and displaces every atom, till we quench the fiery particles and allay their heat.
There can be no doubt that bodies which are rough and angular, rouse and vellicate the organs of feeling, causing a sense of pain, which consists in the violent tension or contraction of the muscular fibres.
Thus, if you vellicate the throat with a feather, nausea is produced; if you wound it with a penknife, pain is induced, but not sickness.
VELLICATE, vel'i-k[=a]t, _v.t._ and _v.i._ to twitch.--_n._ VELLIC[=A]'TION.--_adj._ VELL'IC[=A]TIVE.