A lick and a promise - If you give something a lick and a promise, you do it hurriedly, most often incompletely, intending to return to it later.
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Calf lick - A calf lick is the weird parting in your fringe where your hair grows in a different direction, usually to one side.
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Cat's lick - (Scot) A cat's lick is a very quick wash.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
AS. liccian,; akin to OS. likkōn, D. likken, OHG. lecchōn, G. lecken, Goth. bi-laigōn, Russ. lizate, L. lingere, Gr. lei`chein , Skr. lih, rih,. √121. Cf. Lecher Relish
In literature:
Father Licking, C. SS.
"Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886" by Various
Through it shot flaming tongues that were greedily licking the timbers of the tall trestle-work.
"Derrick Sterling" by Kirk Monroe
If you can't lick me, 'ow can you lick 'im?
"Light Freights, Complete" by W. W. Jacobs
Appreciatively he licked his lips.
"The Trail of '98" by Robert W. Service
The old beard, now shaggy and unkempt, trembled, whilst a parched tongue licked over the lips.
"Tess of the Storm Country" by Grace Miller White
I showed it I could lick it, an' that's all there is to it.
"Prairie Flowers" by James B. Hendryx
Then, glutted with the feast, he crept away to lick his bruises and recover from the fray.
"Followers of the Trail" by Zoe Meyer
At the same time it licked his hand.
"Cab and Caboose" by Kirk Munroe
But we've licked 'em!
"A World is Born" by Leigh Douglass Brackett
Flagg must be licked before he'll sell.
"Joan of Arc of the North Woods" by Holman Day
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In poetry:
Then flew Dinah from under the Chair,
Into his arms she flew—
And licked his face from chin to hair
And Peter passed them through!
"Dinah in Heaven" by Rudyard Kipling
No wish had he to sulk or blame,
Nor did he need to understand,
But simply loved me just the same,--
In silence licking face and hand.
"Leo" by John Lawson Stoddard
The host, he says that all is well
And the fire-wood glow is bright;
The food has a warm and tempting smell,-
But on the window licks the night.
"Fear" by Harold Hart Crane
Pile on the logs... Give me your hands,
Friends! No,- it is not fright...
But hold me... somewhere I heard demands...
And on the window licks the night.
"Fear" by Harold Hart Crane
An excellent soldier who's worthy the name
Loves officers dashing and strict:
When good, he's content with escaping all blame,
When naughty, he likes to be licked.
"The Two Majors" by William Schwenck Gilbert
But I found not a one,
all the places were gone,
they were packed with the living and dead.
Now I live all alone
in a lodge of my own
where the licking flames are red.
"The Solitary" by Jonas Hallgrimsson
In news:
Beach condo application at Lick's site backed despite residents' opposition.
Henderson's 15-year-old all-stars lost to Blue Lick 12-0 Sunday afternoon in the semifinals of the Ohio Valley Regional at Bill Heath Field.
Salt Lick's array of barbecue .
Learn to Play a Wealth of Blues and Bluegrass Licks.
Sinewy, salt-licked surfers drift through ocean towns, heeding a secret siren song.
Licking Memorial buying smaller, for-profit hospital.
Red Lick creates restaurant setting in middle school cafeteria.
Staff photo by Doug Strickland Chef David Blanton speaks with Red Lick Middle School eighth-graders Madison Prince, center, and Kayleigh Morland as they eat lunch Friday at the school.
According to Licking Township firefighter Scott Brown crews were called to 6819 Newark Road shortly before 5 p.m.
Tapper's Delight: 20 Challenging Tapping Licks.
Encourage other self-soothing options such as chewing a bone or licking at a stuffed busy toy.
Are Redskins licking their chops for the Eagles.
When the 45-voice strong Licking Valley Singers step onto the risers for their fall presentation on Nov 9 and 11, expect an ever-changing array of musical selections.
Texans keep clicking despite taking a licking.
SLIDING TOWARD A SHADOWED PLACE where light and hope cannot reach her, a woman sits in a padded chair, and a small black dog licks her hand.
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In science:
The linestrengths required only small zeropoint corrections to bring them onto the Lick system.
The peculiar motions of early-type galaxies in two distant regions - II. The spectroscopic data
Abt (1985) compared counts of citations of papers generated by two telescopes run by national observatories (the CTIO and KPNO 4-m) with those from two telescopes run by private observatories (the Lick 3-m and Palomar 5-m), and found them to be statistically indistinguishable.
Scientific impact of large telescopes
We confirm Abt’s (1985) finding that the impacts of privately run telescopes (Hale, Lick) are not significantly different from those of national facilities.
Scientific impact of large telescopes
After the Second World War, the Lick and Palomar sky surveys and the spectroscopic observations of Humason, Mayall & Sandage238 provided the essential data-base for the analysis of the distribution of galaxies.
From Messier to Abell: 200 years of science with galaxy clusters
Treffers, Maryam Modjaz, The Lick Observatory Supernova Search with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope, Small Telescope Astronomy on Global Scales, ASP Conference Series Vol. 246, IAU Colloquium 183.
Radio Supernovae
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