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I. to spread the legs apart, to straddle: varicare supra modum et in stando deforme est et accedente motu prope obscenum, Quint. 11, 3, 125: vallum, quod eā varicare nemo potest, i. e. can stride over it, Varr. L. L. 5, § 117 Müll.—With a homogeneous object: superbus quin etiam varicatis gressibus patet, Cassiod. Var. 6, 6.