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Definitioner
Substantiv
- The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
- A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
- (colloquial) A bit.
- (music) A short motif.
- speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good, or fair or a similar adjective.
Verb
- To stroke with the tongue.
- (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
- (colloquial) To overcome.
- (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
- (colloquial) To do anything partially.
- (of flame, waves etc.) To lap
- To lap; to take in with the tongue.
Exempel
- a lick of paint; to put on colours with a lick of the brush
- a lick of court white wash
- The birds gathered at the clay lick.
- The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
- Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
- A cat licks milk.
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