recello

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

rĕ-cello, ĕre, v. n. and a.

I Neutr. , to spring back , fly back , bend back : recellere reclinare, Fest. p. 274 Müll. (very rare; perh. only in the foll. examples): (terra) inclinatur retroque recellit, Lucr. 6, 573: cum (ferrea manus) gravi libramento plumbi recelleret ad solum, Liv. 24, 34, 10, v. Weissenb. ad h. l.—

II Act. , to throw or bend back (Apul.): totum corporis pondus in postremos poplites recello, Ap. Met. 7, 24, 14; nates, id. ib. 10, 22, 18.

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