VEL'LICATE, verb transitive [Latin vellico, from vello, to pull. It may be from the root of pull.]
To twitch; to stimulate; applied to the muscles and fibers of animals; to cause to twitch convulsively.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.