Corusco, coruscas, corulcâre. Cicer.To brandish: to glitter or shine.Flammæ coruscant apices.Stat.Fulgore quodam coruscare.Virg.Ignis coruscat.Virg.Pennis coruscant apes.Virg.They shake their wings.Telis faci búsque coruscare.Val. Flac.Clypeus coruscans. Claud. Coruscare mucronem. Sil. Virg.To brandish and shake a sworde.Hastam coruscare.Virg. Telum coruscare. Virg.
Coruscus, Adiectiuum. Virg.That glistereth or shineth: that is brandished or shaken.Auro coruscus.Virg. Fulgura corusca. Lucret. Igois coruscus. Horat. Lampadibus corufcis densum funale.Ouid.Radij corusci.Ouid. Sol coruscos. Virg.Syluæ coruscæ, Virg.Shaking and trembling trees.Tela corusca.Senec. Tractus corusci flammarum. Lucan. Viri ferróque auróque corusci.Stat.Corusca vis fluminis.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cŏrusco, āre, v. a. and n. (the access. form conisco is found in some copies of Lucr. 2, 320, and Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 21) [root scar-, to leap; Gr. skai/rw; cf. also koru/ssw; v. Lidd. and Scott, s. v.]. I.To thrust or push with the horns (very rare): agni ludunt blandeque coruscant, Lucr. 2, 320: frontem, Juv. 12, 6: caput opponis cum eo coruscans, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 21.—II.Transf., to move quickly, to vibrate, shake, brandish, wave, tremble, etc. (poet.). (a).Act.: duo Gaesa manu, Verg. A. 8, 661: hastam, id. ib. 12, 431: telum, id. ib. 12, 887; Sil. 1, 434: ferrum, Val. Fl. 2, 228 al.: linguas (colubrae), Ov. M. 4, 494: alternos apices (flammae), Stat. Th. 12, 432.—(b).Neutr., to flit, flutter, shake: apes pennis coruscant, Verg. G. 4, 73: abies,
trembles
, Juv. 3, 254.—B. In partic., of the tremulous motion of fire, lightning, or brilliant bodies, to flash, glitter, gleam, coruscate: flamma inter nubes coruscat, Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 39, 157: elucent aliae (apes) et fulgore coruscant, Verg. G. 4, 98: Juppiter arce, Val. Fl. 5, 304: telisque salum facibusque coruscat, id. 1, 703: coruscans clipeus, Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 29 al.