Sulco, sulcas, sulcâre. Colum. To cast vp in furrowes: to make furrowes.Agros sulcare. Tib. To til fields in tidges or furrowes.Aequer sulcare.Ouid.To cleaue the water in flitting as a ship doth.Sulcare cutem rugis.Ouid.To make the skin wrinckled & ful of furrowes.Fluctus sulcare remige. Claud. To diuide and cut the water, &c.Humum sulcare vomere.Ouid.To til &c.Longa sulcat maria alta carina. Vir. Sulcare maria arbore.Virg.To cut the seas, &c.Pedibus sulcare pruinas. Propert. To go vpon, &c.
Sulcus, sulci, m. g. Pli. Ci. A futrow. Sulcus. Vir. Tilling or labouring of the ground.Tenui sat erit suspendere sulco. Vir. Sulcus. Vir. A range or trenche like a futrowe to plante or set vines in.Serere tertio, quarto, quinto sulco.To sowe in the thyrde, fourth or sifte falow.Altus sulcus.Stat.A deepe trench.Aquarius sulcus, Vide AQVA.Vasti sulci in puluere.Stat.Great strakes made in the duste like a furrow. Sulcus, A ditch. Sata æquant sulcos.Virg.The corne is so high as the furro wes. Arent sulci. Ouid.Delet sulcos iterata priores orbita.Stat.Infindere sulcos telluri.Virg.Infodere sulcum, Vide INFODIO.Oblimare sulcos inertes.Virg.To fill vp barraine furrows with mucke and slime.Longis sulcis obruta semina.Ouid.Cerealibus sulcis obruta herba.Ouid.Corne sowen in furrowes.Patefacere sulcum impresso aratro.Ouid.To caste vp a furrow, &c.Altero sulco serere, vel semen mandare. Col. To sow at the second tilth.Omne aruÛ rectis sulcis, mox & obliquis subigi debet. Pli. Euerie falow must be cast vp in straite long fnrowes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sulco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [sulcus], to furrow, cut furrows through, to plough (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic. or Cæs.). I.Lit., in agriculture: agros, Tib. 2, 3, 85: (rura) sulcata Camilli Vomere, Luc. 1, 168: vomere humum, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 68: campos vomere, Sil. 9, 191. — Absol.: recto plenoque sulcare, Col. 2, 2, 25.—II.Transf.(a). Ingen., to furrow, plough;poet., to sail over, traverse, pass through, etc.: sulcant fossas, quo pluvia aqua delabatur, Varr. R. R. 1, 29, 2: (anguis) harenam Sulcat, Ov. M. 15, 726: iter caudā, Luc. 9, 721: longā sulcant vada salsa carinā, Verg. A. 5, 158: rate undas, Ov. P. 2, 10, 33; id. M. 4, 707: maria arbore, Plin. 12, 1, 2, 5: regna volatu, Luc. 9, 668: sulcavitque cutem rugis,
furrowed her skin with wrinkles
, Ov. M. 3, 276: gressus, App. M. 5, p. 167, 22: sulcatis lateribus, i. e.
by lashes
, Amm. 14, 9, 5.—(b).To elaborate, to work out (cf. exaro), Ven. Fort. Vita Mart.