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f anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together. [Written also killick.]

Taken by licking with the tongue. "Sirups and lambative medicines." Sir T. Browne.

To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something. The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Sir K. Digby.

To lick. [Obs.]

See Lickerish. -- Lic"o*rous*ness, n. [Obs.] Herbert.

See Lickerish, Lickerishness. Chaucer.

Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

See Lickerish. [Obs.] Shak.

Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. [Obs.] Marston.

A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.

An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. [U.S.] The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a crade. T. B. Thorpe.

Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. Blackstone.

To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub. Sir T. Browne.

A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [Written also paul, or pall.] Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. -- Pawl rim or ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring s…

trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba. -- Pigeon woodpecker (Zoöl.), the flicker. -- Prairie pigeon. (Zoöl.) (a) The upland plover. (b) The golden plover. [Local, U.S.]

A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

s, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking. [Colloq.] He described his friends as rollicking blades. T. Hook.

horse, salted beef. [Slang] -- Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang] -- Salt lick. See Lick, n. -- Salt marsh, grass land subject to the overflow of salt water. -- Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zoöl.), an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acreæ which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other c…

old, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes. [Written also slich, slick.]