Online Dictionary: translate word or phrase from Indonesian to English or vice versa, and also from english to english on-line.
Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Vellicate (0.02428 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Vellicate.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: vellicate
vellicate
v 1: touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface
nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic
movements [syn:
tickle,
titillate]
2: irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear;
“smooth surfaces
can vellicate the teeth”;
“the pain is as if sharp points
pinch your back” [syn:
pinch]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Vellicate
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.
[1913 Webster]
Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve
in its extremity, are not very dangerous. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]
Vellicate
\Vel"li*cate\, v. i.
To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates.
[1913 Webster]
Advertisement