Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VEL'LI-CATE
VEL'LI-CATE, v.t. [L. vellico, from vello, to pull. It may be from the root of pull.]
To twitch; to stimulate; applied to the muscles and fibers of animals; to cause to twitch convulsively. – Cyc.
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