I.to boil out, melt out, dry up.
I. Lit.: “usque coquito, dum dimidium excoquas,” i. e. you boil away, Cato, R. R. 107, 2: “mustum ad dimidium,” Col. 12, 19, 1: “testudinem vino,” to boil thoroughly, Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 38: “glebas melle,” id. 37, 12, 74, § 194: “ferrum (ignis),” i. e. to harden, Ov. M. 14, 712: “harenas admixto nitro in vitrum,” Tac. H. 5, 7: “lapide cremato in caminis donec excoquatur in rubricam,” Plin. 34, 13, 37, § 135: “ignis vitium metallis excoquit,” Ov. F. 4, 786: “omne per ignes vitium,” Verg. G. 1, 88; “hence, excoctum argentum,” i. e. purified, Gell. 6, 5, 9; cf.: “excoxi te, non quasi argentum,” Vulg. Isa. 48, 10: “imagines excoctae flammis,” melted down, Plin. Pan. 52, 5: “excoctum parum habet suci,” Varr. L. L. 5, § 109 Müll.: “terram sol excoquit et facit are,” dries up, Lucr. 6, 962; cf.: “tam excoctam (ancillam) reddam atque atram quam carbo est,” Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63.—With an abstr. object: cruditatem Laconicis, qs. to boil out, i. e. to drive out by steam-baths, Col. 1 praef. § “16: excocta maturitas hordei,” i. e. overripe, Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 80.—
II. Trop.: “malum alicui,” to devise, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 53 (cf. coquo): “mentem,” to plague, vex, Sen. Herc. Fur. 105 (cf. coquo).