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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for licking:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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]

2. The 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks
      milk. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Licking \Lick"ing\, n.
   1. A lapping with the tongue.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A flogging or castigation. [Colloq. or Low]
      [1913 Webster]

4. U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Licking -- U.S. County in Ohio
   Population (2000):    145491
   Housing Units (2000): 58760
   Land area (2000):     686.504767 sq. miles (1778.039109 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    1.876096 sq. miles (4.859065 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    688.380863 sq. miles (1782.898174 sq. km)
   Located within:       Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
   Location:             40.065737 N, 82.482297 W
   Headwords:
    Licking
    Licking, OH
    Licking County
    Licking County, OH


5. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Licking, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
   Population (2000):    1471
   Housing Units (2000): 744
   Land area (2000):     1.735151 sq. miles (4.494019 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.010002 sq. miles (0.025904 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.745153 sq. miles (4.519923 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            42464
   Located within:       Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
   Location:             37.496775 N, 91.857629 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     65542
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Licking, MO
    Licking


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