flay Copy link Outline 1. dēglūbo, psi, ptum, 32. excŏrio, 1 (v. rare)3. expr. by pellis, cŭtis, tergus, and a verb • flay: 1. dēglūbo, psi, ptum, 3: it is the part of a good shepherd to shear the flock, not to f. them, boni pastoris est tondere pecus non d., Tib. in Suet. vit. 32, extr.: to f. a man alive, aliquem vivum d., Varr. ap. Non. 2. excŏrio, 1 (v. rare): Apul. fr. 3. expr. by pellis, cŭtis, tergus, and a verb: the gall (of a bull) when f.'d, fel post detractam cutem, Plin. 28, 12, 50: they hastily f. (the beasts), tergora deripiunt costis, Virg. Aen. 1, 211.