Lick
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( 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.
(2): ( v.) A stroke of the tongue in licking.
(3): ( n.) A slap; a quick stroke.
(4): ( v. t.) To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
(5): ( 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.
(6): ( v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.
(7): ( v. t.) To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.
King James Dictionary [2]
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.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"to lick over" (epi, "over," leicho, "to lick"), is said of the dogs in Luke 16:21 . Some mss. have apoleicho, "to lick off."
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Numbers 22:4 (b) This is an illustration of the complete and thorough work that the armies of Moab expected Israel to do in conquering them and in overrunning their country.
Psalm 72:9 (a) By this we understand the complete defeat which GOD would bring upon His enemies causing them to fall prostrate in the dirt.
Isaiah 49:23 (a) This represents the humiliation of a defeated enemy and the complete elimination of their power. (See Micah 7:17).
