licking

5 definitions found

licking - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lick \Lick\ (l[i^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Licked (l[i^]kt); p.
     pr. & vb. n. Licking.] [AS. liccian; akin to OS. likk[=o]n,
     D. likken, OHG. lecch[=o]n, G. lecken, Goth. bi-laig[=o]n,
     Russ. lizate, L. lingere, Gr. lei`chein, Skr. lih, rih.
     [root]121. Cf. Lecher, Relish.]
     1. To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his
        master's hand. --Addison.
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     2. To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks
        milk. --Shak.
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     To lick the dust, to be slain; to fall in battle. "His
        enemies shall lick the dust." --Ps. lxxii. 9.
  
     To lick into shape, to give proper form 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.
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  Licking \Lick"ing\, n.
     1. A lapping with the tongue.
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     2. A flogging or castigation. [Colloq. or Low]
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licking - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  licking
      n 1: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a
           narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a
           convincing licking" [syn: defeat, licking] [ant:
           triumph, victory]
      2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
         [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing,
         lacing, trouncing, whacking]

licking - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Licking, MO (city, FIPS 42464)
    Location: 37.49612 N, 91.86073 W
    Population (1990): 1328 (630 housing units)
    Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 65542

licking - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "licking":
     Waterloo, appetite, beating, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority,
     carnivorousness, chewing, collapse, conquering, conquest,
     consumption, crash, cropping, deathblow, debacle, defeasance,
     defeat, deglutition, destruction, devouring, devourment, dieting,
     dining, downfall, dressing-down, drubbing, eating, epulation,
     failure, fall, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, grazing,
     herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hiding, hunger,
     ingestion, lambasting, larruping, lathering, leathering,
     manducation, mastery, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling,
     nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, overcoming,
     overthrow, overturn, paddling, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing,
     pecking, quietus, regalement, relishing, rout, ruin, rumination,
     savoring, shellacking, smash, subdual, subduing, subjugation,
     tanning, tasting, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, undoing,
     vanquishment, vegetarianism, walloping, whaling, whipping,
     wolfing