verb
ūvesco
Meaning
- to grow
ūvesco, ĕre,
I. v. inch. n. [uveo, uvens], to grow or become moist, wet, damp, dank, or humid (poet.).
I. Lit.:
suspensae in litore vestes Uvescunt, Lucr. 1, 306; Avien. Arat. 254.—II. Transf., poet., to moisten or refresh one's self, i. e. to drink freely, to tipple: seu quis capit acria fortis Pocula, seu modicis uvescit laetius, * Hor. S. 2, 6, 70.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
ūvēscō —, —, inch.
* ūveo; VG-, to drink freely, tipple : modicis (poculis) laetius, H.