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Vellicating

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing vellication; irritating or tickling.

    "After having examined the ſymptoms, he declared that the patient had be poiſoned with arſenic, and preſcribed oily draughts and lubricating injections, to defend the coats of the ſtomach and inteſtines from the vellicating particles of that pernicious mineral; at the ſame time hinting, with a look of infinite ſagacity, that it was not difficult to divine the whole myſtery."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of vellicate form-of, gerund, participle, present

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