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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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15 words match “LICKING”

LICKING n. 2 definitions
A lapping with the tongue.
SLICKING n. 2 definitions
The act or process of smoothing.
CANCAN n.
A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.
CLICK v. 2 definitions
To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something. [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. Ben Jonson. When merry milkmaids click the latch. Tennyson.
HOTTENTOT n.
The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds. Hottentot cherry (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus Cassine (C. maurocenia), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. Loudon. -- Hottentot's bread. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant.…
JACK n.
A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
JIGGER n.
A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i). Jigger mast. (Naut.) (a) The after mast of a four- masted vessel. (b) The small mast set at the stern of a yawlrigged boat.
LAMBATIVE a. 2 definitions
Taken by licking with the tongue. "Sirups and lambative medicines." Sir T. Browne.
LAP v.
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.
LICK v. 2 definitions
m to; -- from a notion that the bear's cubs are born shapeless and subsequently formed by licking. Hudibras. -- To lick the spittle of, to fawn upon. South. -- To lick up, to take all of by licking; to devour; to consume entirely. Shak. Num. xxii. 4.
LINCTURE; LINCTUS n.
Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
LOCH n.
A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.
LOPE n.
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.
ROLLIC v.
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.
SKYLARKING n.
The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [Colloq.]