obsuo

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

ob-sŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a.

I To sew on (very rare): obsutum caput, Ov. F. 2, 578. —

II To sew up, sew together; to stop or close up (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): nares, et spiritus oris obsuitur, Verg. G. 4, 301: sporta auri obsuta, Suet. Rhet. 1 fin. : obsuta lectica, the curtains of which are sewed together all around , id. Tib. 64.

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