I.to cut under, cut away below; to clip, pare (rare; “not in Cic.): stramentum et manipulum falce,” Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 1: herbam. id. ib. 1, 49, 1: “legumina,” id. ib. 1, 23, 3: “radices,” Col. 2, 9, 10: “partes, unde creatus erat (Saturnus),” Ov. Ib. 276: “ungues ferro,” id. F. 6, 230: “papavereas ungue comas,” id. ib. 4, 438; Cels. 7, 33.
sub-sĕco , cui, ctum, 1, v. a.,