2. Verb. (third-person singular of lick) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Licks
1. lick [v] - See also: lick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Licks
Literary usage of Licks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1833)
"Few licks afford the pure muriate of soda. 2. Sulphur licks. Those where sulphates
and hydrogene predominate, rendering the soil or water fetid. 3. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"But there are two Blue licks on the same creek, and both of them are large licks.
... We are then to ask which of these licks a man in Kentucky, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1904)
"But there are two Blue licks on the same creek, and both of them are large licks.
... We are then to ask, which of these licks a man in Kentucky, ..."
4. The Library of American Biography by Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), Jared Sparks (1847)
"Disastrous Battle at the Blue licks. — Campaign of General George Rogers Clark.
— Female Heroism: — Preliminaries of Peace. INFORMATION of the attack on ..."
5. Geology and Agriculture by Louisiana Geological Survey (1902)
"Between the Upper and the Lower licks is a sandy ridge 35 to 40 feet high.
The Lower lick extends for about a quarter of a mile northeast and southwest, ..."
6. The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone: The First Settler of Kentucky by Timothy Flint (1868)
"Disastrous battle near the Blue licks—General Clarke's expedition against the
... They took the road to the lower Blue licks. Colonel Todd, of Lexington, ..."
7. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818)
"After the return of the former gentleman from the expedition to the Pacific Ocean
in 1806, he caused the soil of the Big-Bone-licks to be dug up. ..."
8. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"... and when they come in they struck her four or five licks before they said a word.
Mr. JOHNSON. We object to all this, may it please your honor. Answer. ..."
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