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.
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.