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I. "to pluck or pull out" hair, Lat. vello, Il.; so in Mid., χαίτας τίλλεσθαι "to pluck out one's" hair, Od.
2. with acc. of that "from which" the hair or feathers "are plucked", τίλλειν πέλειαν id=Od.; κάρα τ. Aesch.; τ. πλάτανον "to pluck" its leaves "off", Plut.:— Pass. "to have one's hair plucked out", Ar.
II. Mid., τίλλεσθαί τινα "to tear one's hair in sorrow for" any one, Il.
III. metaph. "to pluck, vex, annoy", Lat. vellicare, Pass., Ar.