Crossword-Solution: LICK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lick | v. t. | To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand. |
| Lick | v. t. | To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk. |
| Lick | v. | A stroke of the tongue in licking. |
| Lick | v. | 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. |
| Lick | v. | 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. |
| Lick | v. t. | To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter. |
| Lick | n. | A slap; a quick stroke. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LICK (5)
Hee boulder now, uncall’d before her stood; But as in gaze admiring: Oft he bowd His turret Crest, and sleek enamel’d Neck, Fawning, and lick’d the ground whereon she trod.
During the opposition of 1894 a great light was seen on the illuminated part of the disk, first at the Lick Observatory, then by Perrotin of Nice, and then by other observers.
But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what’s coming? He ’pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it’s all down again and I can’t hit him a lick.
They are as tall as a tree and as big around as a church.” “Well,” I says, “s’pose we got some genies to help _us_—can’t we lick the other crowd then?” “How you going to get them?” “I don’t know.
She could but lick the wounds, and thus she kept them cleansed, that healing nature might the more quickly do her work.
Quotes with LICK (3)
You wanted to lick my face the first time you saw me? Is that usually what you do when you’re attracted to guys?” I shake my head. “Not your face, your dimple. And no. You’re the only guy I’ve ever had the urge to lick.” He smiles at me confidently. “Good. Because you’re the only girl I’ve ever had the urge to love.
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it stayed while the rain beat on the walls and the fire sank down and the night wearing slowly along left the old woman nodding by the hearthpit. Then the otak crept down and came to Ged where he lay stretched stiff and still upon the bed. It began to lick his hands and wrists, long and patiently, with its dry leaf-brown tongue. Crouching beside his head it licked his temple, his s…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 132 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).