obduce
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin obducere, obductum; ob (see ob-) + ducere (“to lead”).
Verb
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- (obsolete) To draw over, as a covering.
- Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind.
- Animal exhibits its Face in the native colour of its Skin but Man; all others are covered with Feathers, or Hair, or a Cortex that is obduced over the Cutis as in Elephants and some sort of Indian Dogs.
- Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “obduce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) obdūce