I.v. a., to rub off, rub down; to rub hard, to rub (rare; mostly technical; not in Cic. and Caes.).
I. Prop.: dentem, Catull. 37, 20; Ov. A. A. 3, 216: “radicem,” Col. 12, 56, 1: “dolia,” id. 11, 2, 70: “lichenes pumice,” Plin. 26, 4, 10, § 21: “papulam saliva,” Cels. 5, 28, 18; cf. “vulnera,” Col. 6, 7, 4: “corpora pecudum quotidie,” id. 6, 30, 1: “fauces ceteraque membra,” Suet. Dom. 20 et saep.: “vas aeneum defricabitur,” shall be scoured, Vulg. Lev. 6, 28: defricari, mid., to rub one's self, as in a bath, Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14.—
II. Trop.: urbem sale multo, to lash well, Hor. S. 1, 10, 4.—Hence, *dēfrĭcātē , adv. (acc. to no. II.), with biting sarcasm: facete et defricate, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 178 P.