I.to spread the legs apart, to straddle: “varicare supra modum et in stando deforme est et accedente motu prope obscenum,” Quint. 11, 3, 125: vallum, quod eā varicare nemo potest, i. e. can stride over it, Varr. L. L. 5, § 117 Müll.—With a homogeneous object: “superbus quin etiam varicatis gressibus patet,” i. e. striding, strutting, swaggering, Cassiod. Var. 6, 6.
vārĭco , āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. 1. varicus,