I.to wash thoroughly, wash out, rinse (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.); constr. aliquid, or aliquid aliquā re; rarely aliquid de aliquā re: “metretam amurcā,” Cato, R. R. 100; Pers. 1, 18: “os de oleo,” Plin. 23, 4, 38, § 77: “decocto,” id. 23, 6, 56, § 105: “dentes aquā,” id. 20, 6, 23, § 53: “gemma melle colluta,” id. 37, 10, 56, § 155.—Poet.: ora, to moisten, wet, i. e. to quench thirst, * Ov. M. 5, 447 (cf.: “abluere sitim,” Lucr. 4, 877).—*
II. Absol., to wash up (earth) by the waves, Dig. 41, 1, 30, § 2.