apricate

i. [Lat. apricor and aprico, v.t., from Lat. apricus. In Ital. aprico = (1) open, uncovered, (2) sunny.) To bask in the sun. "Positively not sunning, but mooning himself apricating himself in the occasional moonbeams."-De Quincey: Works (ed. 1863), vol. ii., p. 229.