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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (4 senses)

I. To gather flowers, fruit, etc.
1. carpo, psi, ptum, 3
2. lĕgo, 3
II. To strip off the feathers of birds, etc.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.

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I. To gather flowers, fruit, etc.
1. carpo, psi, ptum, 3
2. lĕgo, 3
II. To strip off the feathers of birds, etc.

• 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.