decalvo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dē-calvo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [calvus],

to make bald, to remove the hair (late Lat.): locum corporis, Veg. A. V. 2, 48, 3: Sampson a muliere decalvatus, shorn , Hier. adv. Jov. 1, 23: pueros David decalvavit, Vulg. 1 Par. 19, 4; 1 Cor. 11, 6.