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LICK, L. lingo Gr. See Like and Sleek.

1. To pass or draw the tongue over the surface as, a dog licks a wound.

2. To lap to take in by the tongue as, a dog or cat licks milk. 1 Kings 21 .

To lick up, to devour to consume entirely.

Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as an ox licketh up the grass of the field. Numbers 22 .

To lick the dust, to be slain to perish in battle.

His enemies shall lick the dust. Psalms 72 .

LICK, n. In America, a place where beasts of the forest lick for salt, at salt springs.

LICK, n.

1. A blow a stroke. Not an elegant word.

2. A wash something rubbed on. Not in use.

LICK, To strike repeatedly for punishment to flog to chastise with blows. Not an elegant word but probably flog, L. fligo, is from the root of this word.

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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.

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