Lick
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Numbers 22:4
- Last Reference: Micah 7:17
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
LICK, verb transitive [Latin 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 21:19.
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 22:4.
To lick the dust, to be slain; to perish in battle.
His enemies shall lick the dust. Psalms 72:9.
LICK, noun In America, a place where beasts of the forest lick for salt, at salt springs.
LICK, noun
1. A blow; a stroke. [Not an elegant word.]
2. A wash; something rubbed on. [Not in use.]
LICK, verb transitive To strike repeatedly for punishment; to flog; to chastise with blows. [Not an elegant word; but probably flog, Latin fligo, is from the root of this word.]
LICK'ER, noun One that licks.
LICK'ERISH, adjective [Gr. sweet. The sense of watery, smooth, sweet, are allied; likeness is often connected with smoothness in radical sense, and sleek is probably from the root of lick, like.]
1. Nice in the choice of food; dainty; as a lickerish palate.
2. Eager; greedy to swallow; eager to taste or enjoy; having a keen relish.
3. Dainty; tempting the appetite; as lickerish baits.
LICK'ERISHLY, adverb Daintly.
LICK'ERISHNESS, noun Niceness of palate; daintiness.