A.pluck all round, strip, θρίδακα strip the outside leaves off a lettuce, Hdt.3.32 ; θρίδαξ περιτετιλμένη ibid.: metaph., περιτετιλμένος τ ὰ πτερά having one's feathers all plucked off, Luc.Gall.23.
II. pluck out, v. παρατίλλω.
περιτίλλω ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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