Usage examples (6)

• 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,...
• At first vellication is painful but the skin becomes used to it.
• In the case of the axilla-pile, vellication is the popular process: see vol. ix.
• Here the pleasureable idea of playfulness coincides with the vellication; and there is no voluntary exertion used to diminish the sensation, as there would be, if a...