Extrico, tricas, pen. prod. tricâre. To deliuer: to shake off anye thing that letteth.Extricare se.Plaut.To ridde himselfe out of.Extricare syluestrem agrum. Col. To shrubbe or ridde from bushes or trees: to grubbe.Nummos vnde vnde extricare. Hor. To wreste mony frõ one or an other, howesoener it be.Ceruaextricat a densis plagis. Horat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-trīco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (dep. form extricor, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 49; v. infrafin.) [tricae], to disentangle, extricate, to clear, free (rare; not in Cic.; syn.: explico, enodo, expedio, enucleo, explano). I.Lit.: extricata densis Cerva plagis, Hor. C. 3, 5, 31: margaritae extricatae,
unstrung
,
loose
, Dig. 9, 2, 27 fin.—B.Transf.: silvestris ager facile extricatur,
is cleared
,
made arable
, Col. 3, 11, 3: mercedem aut nummos unde unde extricat,
procures with difficulty
,
hunts up
, Hor. S. 1, 3, 88.—II.Trop.: putas eos non citius tricas Atellanas quam id extricaturos, to unravel, clear up, Varr. ap. Non. 8, 29: de aliquo nihil, Vat. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10, 1: nihil, Phaedr. 4, 22, 4: omne genus daemoniorum,