pluck (v.) Copy link Outline I. To gather flowers, fruit, etc.1. carpo, psi, ptum, 32. lĕgo, 3II. 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.
PLUCK Copy link • PLUCK 1. v. To pull sharply, vellere: vellicare. To pluck up by the roots, radicitus vellere; evellere, convellere: to pluck a bird; i. e., pull its feathers out, avem vellere (e.g., pullos anserum, Col.); *avi pennas evellere or auferre. Pluck out, vellere (e.g., lanam, capillos: pullos anserum, Col.; pilos): evellere (pluck out or up; e.g., linguam Marco Catoni: spinas agio). To pluck out anybody’s eyes, oculos alicui eripere or eruere. Pluck off = gather, carpere: decerpere (general terms): legere (with selection; fruits and flowers): sublegere (to pluck off some; i. e., to thin a fruit-tree): destringere alicui aliquid (berries and leaves): avellere (pluck off; e.g., poma ex arboribus, Plin.): detrabere alicui aliquid (take away from; fruits): Flowers plucked, flores carpti or demessi. To pluck up courage, animum or (of several) animos capere or colligere: to pluck up courage again, animum or se recipere: to cause anybody to pluck up courage, animum alicui facere, or afferre, or addere (of things): to bid anybody pluck up his courage, alicujus animum verbis confirmare; firmare, or confirmare aliquem or alicujus animum. 2. s. The heart, liver, and lights drawn from an animal, exta, -orum, nominative plur. Figuratively. In low language = courage, animus fortis; virtus.