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. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
At first vellication is painful but the skin becomes used to it. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
In the case of the axilla-pile, vellication is the popular process: see vol. ix. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
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 child should endeavour to tickle himself. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
376 This is the popular idea of a bushy “veil of nature” in women: it is always removed by depilatories and vellication. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
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