deglubo

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

dē-glūbo, no perf., ptum, 3, v. a., to peel off; to shell, to husk. *

I Lit.: granum eo folliculo, Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 2.—

II Transf.

A To take off the skin; to skin, flay (rare): se vel vivum, Varr. ap. Non. 158, 22; cf. maenam, Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 33: pecus, Tiber. ap. Suet. Tib. 32 fin. : murem, Marc. Empir. 16 med. —*

B In an obscene sense, Aus. Epigr. 71, 5.