Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-FO'LI-ATE
EX-FO'LI-ATE, v.t. [L. exfolio; ex and folium, a leaf.]
In surgery, to separate and come off in scales, as pieces of carious bone; in mineralogy, to scale off, as the lamins of a mineral.
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