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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]
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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.
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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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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]
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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
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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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Thesaurus Results for licking:
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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 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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