Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of licking.

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Examples

  • a hall which had just been left by hundreds of men, and to make the meal amid the prospect of slovenly servants employed in the emptying of wine-glasses and the ligurrition of dishes, sometimes even in passages of coquetry or noisy civilities, on the interchange of which the presence of these undergraduates seemed to impose but little check.

    Julian Home 1867

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