lick

باللغة العربية: لَعْقَة، لَحْسَة

1. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue. · The cat gave its fur a lick.
2. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick. · Give me a lick of ice cream.
3. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue. · a lick of paint· to put on colours with a lick of the brush
4. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground. · The birds gathered at the clay lick.
5. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream. · We used to play in the lick.
6. A stroke or blow. (colloquial) · Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
7. A small amount; a whit. (colloquial) · You don't have a lick of sense.· I didn't do a lick of work today.
8. An attempt at something. (informal)

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