Definition of "vellication" [vel•li•ca•tion]

• A spasmodic twitching (noun)

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• "At first vellication is painful but the skin becomes used to it."
• "The locks are dyed dun, frizzled, and greased; the Widads or learned men remove them, and none but paupers leave them in their natural state; the mustachios are clipped close, the straggling whisker is carefully plucked, and the pile — erroneously considered impure — is removed either by vellication, or by passing the limbs through the fire."
• "In the case of the axilla-pile, vellication is the popular process: see vol. ix."