'Lick' definitions:
Definition of 'lick'
(from WordNet)
noun
A salt deposit that animals regularly lick [syn: salt lick, lick]
noun
Touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet" [syn: lick, lap]
noun
(boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose" [syn: punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slug]
verb
Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick]
verb
Pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand" [syn: lick, lap]
verb
Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem" [syn: solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work]
verb
Definition of 'Lick'
From: GCIDE
- Lick \Lick\, n. A slap; a quick stroke. [Colloq.] "A lick across the face." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lick'
From: GCIDE
- Lick \Lick\, n. [See Lick, v.]
- 1. A stroke of the tongue in licking. "A lick at the honey pot." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- A lick of court whitewash. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs. Called also salt lick. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lick'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Lick'
From: GCIDE
- Lick \Lick\, v. t. [Cf. OSw. l[aum]gga to place, strike, prick.] To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter. [Colloq. or Low] --Carlyle. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lick'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addle,
- amaze,
- approach,
- assay,
- attempt,
- baffle,
- bamboozle,
- bang,
- bash,
- bat,
- bear the palm,
- beat,
- beat all hollow,
- beat hollow,
- beating,
- belt,
- best,
- bid,
- biff,
- bite,
- blow,
- boggle,
- bonk,
- breath,
- brush,
- buffalo,
- cadenza,
- career,
- caress,
- cast,
- chop,
- clip,
- clobber,
- clout,
- clump,
- confound,
- conk,
- conquer,
- contact,
- crack,
- cut,
- cutaneous sense,
- dash,
- daze,
- defeat,
- destroy,
- dig,
- dint,
- dirty work,
- do in,
- donkeywork,
- down,
- dress down,
- drub,
- drubbing,
- drudgery,
- drumming,
- effort,
- employment,
- endeavor,
- essay,
- experiment,
- extempore,
- fag,
- fatigue,
- feel,
- feeling,
- fingertip caress,
- fix,
- flax,
- flick,
- fling,
- floor,
- flourish,
- fuddle,
- fusillade,
- gait,
- gambit,
- get,
- give a dressing-down,
- glance,
- gleam,
- go,
- graze,
- grind,
- hand-mindedness,
- handiwork,
- handwork,
- hide,
- hint,
- hit,
- hors de combat,
- hot lick,
- hurdle,
- idea,
- impromptu,
- improvisation,
- industry,
- interpolation,
- intimation,
- jab,
- keep in suspense,
- kiss,
- knock,
- labor,
- lambaste,
- lambency,
- lap,
- lap up,
- larrup,
- lather,
- leather,
- lick of work,
- light touch,
- look,
- manual labor,
- master,
- maze,
- moil,
- mouth,
- move,
- muddle,
- mystify,
- nonplus,
- offer,
- outclass,
- outdo,
- outfight,
- outgeneral,
- outmaneuver,
- outpoint,
- outrun,
- outsail,
- outshine,
- overwhelm,
- pace,
- paddle,
- pelt,
- perplex,
- plunk,
- poke,
- pound,
- progress,
- punch,
- put,
- puzzle,
- rap,
- rat race,
- rate,
- riff,
- rub,
- ruin,
- scintilla,
- scut work,
- sense of touch,
- settle,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shellac,
- shot,
- sip,
- skin,
- skin alive,
- slam,
- slavery,
- slog,
- slug,
- slurp,
- smack,
- smash,
- smattering,
- smear,
- smell,
- smother,
- soak up,
- sock,
- soupcon,
- spadework,
- spark,
- sponge up,
- sprinkling,
- stab,
- step,
- stick,
- stride,
- stroke,
- stroke of work,
- strong bid,
- stump,
- suggestion,
- sup,
- surmount,
- suspicion,
- swat,
- sweat,
- swing,
- swipe,
- tactile sense,
- taction,
- take the cake,
- tan,
- tap,
- task,
- taste,
- tattoo,
- tentative,
- tentative poke,
- thought,
- thrash,
- throw,
- thump,
- thwack,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tiresome work,
- toil,
- tongue,
- touch,
- trace,
- travail,
- travel,
- tread,
- treadmill,
- trial,
- trial and error,
- trim,
- triumph,
- triumph over,
- trounce,
- try,
- undertaking,
- undo,
- vamp,
- wallop,
- welt,
- whack,
- whale,
- whiff,
- whip,
- whisper,
- whop,
- win,
- wipe,
- work,
- worst,
- yerk