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Latin third person plural of cicuro ("to make (someone) tame").
Thus, "Cicurant illiud Sinenses & collum argento exornant" = "The Chinese make them tame, and fit them with silver collars", in Polish Jesuit Michael Boym's 16th-century account of the mysterious mouse-hunting tortoise-chasing squirrel supposedly seen by him in southern China.
May 20, 2011