per-scindo, scĭdi, scissum, 3, v. a., to rend asunder or in pieces: nubem, Lucr. 6, 138; 180: vestem, Tib. 1, 10, 63: omnia perscindente vento, Liv. 21, 58, 57; Lucr. 6, 111. Pass., Lucr. 4, 599.