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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Sipping; touching lightly.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Sipping; touching lightly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. rare Sipping; touching lightly.

Etymologies

  1. Latin libans, present participle of libare ("to taste, touch"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Speaking of the swift, that page says "its drink the dew;" whereas it should be "it drinks on the wing;" for all the swallow kind sip their water as they sweep over the face of pools or rivers: like Virgil's bees, they drink flying; "_flumina summa libant_.”

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1

  • “a flawless performance and studied it with the air of a libant, pausing between sips of the exquisite.”

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island

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