defingo

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

dē-fingo, nxi, 3,

v. a., to form, to put in shape, to fashion (very rare; prob. belonging properly to the vulgar lang.; hence in Hor., by way of sarcasm): panem, Cato R. R. 74 and 121.—Sarcast. of coarse poetic description: dum Defingit Rheni luteum caput, * Hor. S. 1, 10, 37.

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