lick

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  1. transitive verb To pass the tongue over or along: lick a stamp.
  2. transitive verb To lap up.
  3. transitive verb To lap or flicker at like a tongue: The waves licked the sides of the boat.
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  • Now and then there was an open glade called a prairie or "lick," where the wild animals came to drink and disport themselves. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln, by Wayne Whipple.
  • This lick is a little more challenging and introduces some sliding into the mix. —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • This was not only used by the settlers for themselves, but for their stock, which ranged freely in the woods; to provide for the latter a tree was chopped down and the salt placed in notches or small troughs cut in the trunk, making it what was called a lick-log. —  The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
  • This is his best lick, and it doesn't promise to last long. —  Lahoma
  • Liebling: -))) * lick**lick**lick* —  AllDeaf.com
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English licken, from Old English liccian; see leigh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English licken, from Anglo-Saxon liccian = Old Saxon lekkōn, likkōn = Dutch likken = Middle Low German Low German licken = Old High German lecchōn, lechōn, leccōn, Middle High German G. lecken = Danish likke (from D. or Low German) = Gothic (Moesogothic) *likkōn, an unrecorded form (the prob. source, rather than the Old High German, of Italian leccare = Provencal liquar = Old French lechier, lekier, French lécher, lick: see lech, lecher, lecherous, etc.), secondary to *laigon, in comp. bilaigōn, lick; = Irish lighim = Old Bulgarian lizati = Servian Bohemian lizati = Russ, lizatĭ = Lettish laizīt, lick, = Greek λείχειν, lick (cf. λίχνος, dainty, lickerous), = Latin lingere, lick, ligurire, lick, = Sanskrit √ lih, rih, lick.
  2. from lick, v.
 

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